Thomas Harris is a man with many talents and a keen interest in writing.
He earned a major in English and has written for many newspapers. He is most known for his second book, which became a major motion picture and earned 5 Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. The book is called Silence of the Lambs. Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee in 1940. He loved to read and moved to Rich, Mississippi at a young age so his father could pursue a farming career. He got married but was divorced in the 1960s. By then, he had one child, a daughter named Anne. At this point, Harris moved to New York to become a writer for the Harold Tribune as a police reporter.
He wrote minor articles for magazines. Though he found police work to be boring, it exposed him to the police environment which he uses in his novels. His first novel was written 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 successful movie and a notable bestseller. Thomas now devotes most of his time to writing, and he writes with such detail that it took him until 1981 to release his next book. One of the reasons Harris’s books do so well is because of his attention to detail. He spends many years researching a subject before he writes a novel about it. His second book, Red Dragon, was the first book in a series of three psychological thrillers in which you are taken into 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. Harris’s third book, Hannibal, is about the hunt for the long-time escaped killer Hannibal the Cannibal” Lecter. Harris now resides in many of his homes located in Rich Mississippi, Long Island NY, and Miami Florida.
