

Ernest Hemingway was one of his favorite authors. Harris exhibited a love of books at an early age and spent much of his time reading. Harris attended Clarksdale High School, where his mother taught biology. When he was a young boy, he and his parents, William and Polly, moved to a farm in his father’s hometown, Rich, Mississippi.

Sangharsh (1999), an unlicensed remake of The Silence of the Lambs made in India.The author of The Silence of the Lambs and other novels of suspense, William Thomas Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1940.The Shadow in the Dark (1986), an episode of TV Series "Miami Vice" which is a loose adaptation of " Red Dragon" (and is also produced by director of Manhunter, Michael Mann).Hannibal Rising (2007) - For the first time, Harris wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation.Harris later wrote Cari Mora (2019), again not featuring Lecter.įilms based on the Hannibal Lecter novels Harris’s first wrote Black Sunday (1975) which did not feature Hannibal Lecter or anyone from that verse, and is completely unrelated to his four other books. According to literary agent Morton Janklow, Harris is also an avid cook. In 2019, he granted his first interview since 1976 to the New York Times, revealing Harris as a nature-lover and longtime volunteer to an animal rescue center in Miami, Florida. Harris avoids publicity, so relatively little is known about the author for most of his career. All of his works have been made into films, and now his entire Hannibal concept is being written for television, most notably for NBC's Hannibal. Thomas Harris is an American author and screenwriter, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. Crime writer - Author - Screenwriter External Links IMDB
