Thomas Harris
Thomas Harris is a man with many tallents, an a keen intrest in
writing. He
earned a major in English, he has written for many newspapers and
is most known
for his second book which became a major motion picture earning
5 Academy Awards
for Best Picture , Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director
and Best Adapted
Screen Play, Silence of the Lambs. Harris was born in
Jackson Tennessee in 1940
He loved to read, he moved to Rich Mississippi
at a young age so his father
could persue a farming carrer. He got married
but was divorced in the 1960’s,
by then he had one child. A daughter byt he
name of Anne. At this point Harris
moved to New York to became a writer for
the Harold Tribune as a police
reporter. He wrote minor articles for
magazines. Though he found the police work
to be boring it exposed him to the
police enviironement which he uses in his
novels. His first novel was wrote
in 1975, it was about terrorists who use the
Goodyear Blimp to try and
bomb the Super Bowl. Harris and two other co-workers
came up with the idea
for the story but Harris took over and finished the novel.
The novel
became a succsesfull movie and a notional bestseller. Thomas devoted
most of
his time now to writing, he writes with such detail that it took him
untill
1981 for him to release his next book. One of the reasons Harris’ books
do so
well is because of his attention to detail, he spends many years
reaserching
a subject before he writes a novel about it. His second book, Red
Dragon
was the first book in a series of three phycological thrillers in which
you
are taken in to the mind of a killer known as Hannibal "the
Cannibal"
Lecter. The next book is by far his most famous and is titled
"Silence of the
Lambs". This novel is about an FBI agent trying to
find a killer by the name
of Buffalo Bill, she needs to crack open the mind of
Hannibal Lecter in
order to find him. His third book Hannibal,is about the hunt
for the long
time escaped killer Hannibal "the Cannible" Lecter.
Harris now resided in
many of his homes located in Rich Mississippi, Long Island
NY, and Miami
Flordia.