Thomas harris net worth

Thomas Harris

Major Works

  • Cara Mora (May 2019) Grand Central Publishing
  • Hannibal Rising (2006)
  • Hannibal (1999)
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
  • Red Dragon (1981)
  • Black Sunday (1975)

Biography of Thomas Harris (1999)

by Teal Waterstrat (SHS)

Thomas Harris, author of three national bestsellers, was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but moved to Rich, Mississippi, with his parents, William and Polly, early in his life. He attended Clarksdale High School, where his mother taught biology. His mother reports that he spent most of his time reading and writing, and that Hemmingway was a favorite writer.

Not much information is available about the life of Harris, but after high school, he went to Baylor University in Waco, Texas, to earn a major in English. While in Waco he worked for the Herald Tribune as a police reporter but found it very unimaginative. While at Baylor, he wrote numerous stories to magazines like True and Argosy that were gothic and detailed.

During this time Harris met his wife Harriet and they had a daughter named Anne before they divo

Tomás Harris

For other people named Thomas Harris, see Thomas Harris (disambiguation).

MI5 officer and art dealer (1908-1964)

Tomás "Tommy" Joseph Harris (10 April 1908 – 27 January 1964) was a British art dealer and artist, who also served as an MI5 intelligence officer during World War II. As a Spanish-speaker, he worked with Juan Pujol García, a very important double agent in the Double Cross System.

Born of a Spanish mother, Enriqueta Rodriguez, and an English father, Lionel Harris, an art dealer specialising in Spanish paintings, he grew up in a Jewish household in Hampstead, his mother having converted to Judaism at the time of the marriage,[1] Harris continued his father's successful art dealing business, and was essentially an amateur artist himself. Harris had an important collection of Spanish prints, especially those of Francisco Goya, which was mostly acquired by the British Museum after his death. In fact, Harris, while still alive, placed his collection on indefinite loan in the British Museum.[2] The British Museum has 708 objects f

The author of The Silence of the Lambs and other novels of suspense, William Thomas Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1940. When he was a young boy, he and his parents, William and Polly, moved to a farm in his father’s hometown, Rich, Mississippi. Harris attended Clarksdale High School, where his mother taught biology. Harris exhibited a love of books at an early age and spent much of his time reading. Ernest Hemingway was one of his favorite authors.

Harris earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in 1964, while working at night as a police reporter for the Waco Tribune-Herald. Though he found the job uninspiring, the experience and insight he gained into police work served him well in his later writings. While at Baylor, Harris wrote and submitted dark, meticulously crafted short stories to publications such as True and Argosy.

In 1968 Harris took a job with the Associated Press in New York, working as a crime reporter and editor and learning about police procedure in homicide investigations. Harris was intrigued by criminal

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