Harry Mark Petrakis is the author of twenty-one books, including A Dream of Kings, which was made into a major motion picture. He has held appointments at Ohio University as McGuffy Visiting Lecturer and at San Francisco State University as Kazantzakis Professor in Modern Greek Studies. He was twice nominated for the National Book Award in Fiction, won the O. Henry Award, and received awards from Friends of American Writers, Friends of Literature, and the Society of Midland Authors.

Legends of Glory and Other Stories contains a novella and eight short stories by award-winning author Harry Mark Petrakis. In a departure from his previous, highly regarded work, Petrakis offers afresh perspective in the novella " Legends of Glory". For the first time Petrakis deals with the traditions and emotions of a small Midwestern town caught in the whirlwind of the Iraq War. In a communal rite of morning, each character embodies a different voice, a different perspective, in regard to patriotism. Although the novella relates to the sacrifice of one young man, the grieving of his parents, and the conflicts of a family, it explores human emotions as old as war itself.