Eileen Harris


Dr Eileen Joyce Harris is an American/English architectural historian and author. She is an expert on Robert Adam and is Honorary Librarian and Consultant to the Adam Project at Sir John Soane's Museum in London.

Early and family life

Eileen Joyce Harris is American and married to Englishman John Harris, has a son, Lucian Guthrie, and a daughter, Georgina, and lives in London and Badminton, Gloucestershire, UK. Eileen Harris was born in November 1932 to Paul Spiegel and Irene Stein in the city of Brooklyn, New York. Eileen also has a younger brother, Michael Ivan Spiegel, who was a famous antitrust lawyer and also Deputy Attorney General of California for 25 years.

Career

Harris is an internationally recognised Robert Adam scholar, publishing extensively on the subject for over 40 years. Harris, along with Nicholas Savage, has been working part-time on an integrated catalogue of Sir John Soane's art, architectural and general volumes and pamphlets in his library at Sir John Soane's Museum, being made available online.

Books (in reverse chronology)