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Thomas Harris

Thomas Harris

A native of Mississippi, Thomas Harris began his writing career covering crime in the United States and Mexico, and was a reporter and editor for the Associated Press in New York City. His first novel, Black Sunday, was published in 1975, followed by Red Dragon in 1981 and The Silence of the Lambs in 1988. Hannibal, Harris' third book featuring Hannibal Lecter was an international bestseller.

Red Dragon will be released on February 21, 2012 in Audio Download
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Red Dragon will be released on March 15, 1989 in
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The Silence of the Lambs will be released on October 15, 1988 in
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TransWorldNews, February 7, 2012
...with thousands sold in the first month of release! "An absolutely bone-chilling thriller. Equal parts Stephen Hunter and Thomas Harris. Imagine Bob Lee Swagger going after Hannibal Lecter and you will have only scratched the surface of this intensely...
Buffalo News, February 7, 2012
...Today is Charles Dickens' 200th birthday, so let's celebrate by talking books. First off, if you're looking for a juicy read, but you'd prefer something more contemporary than "Oliver Twist," the Boston Globe provides guidance in this helpful list of...
Daily Advance, January 29, 2012
...FBI agent played by Jodie Foster takes on serial killer Hannibal Lector in this Oscar-winner based on the Thomas Harris novel. 2. Nora Charles in “The Thin Man” series (1934, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1945, and 1947) – Nora’s a Nob Hill heiress married...
Denver Post, January 29, 2012
...Katzenbach's "The Traveler" (1987) was inspired by Ted Bundy, whose trial Katzenbach covered as a young reporter. Thomas Harris' "Red Dragon" and "The Silence of the Lambs" introduced arguably the most memorable villain in modern popular fiction, that...
Denver Post, January 29, 2012
...Katzenbach's "The Traveler" (1987) was inspired by Ted Bundy, whose trial Katzenbach covered as a young reporter. Thomas Harris' "Red Dragon" and "The Silence of the Lambs" introduced arguably the most memorable villain in modern popular fiction, that...
New Yorker, January 27, 2012
...option to the Kindle’s menu bar. The inside cover from David Foster Wallace’s teaching copy of Thomas Harris’s "The Silence of the Lambs.” Image courtesy of the Harry Ransom Center...
Book Reporter, January 20, 2012
...all Hill and Jordan. Vance is an extremely frightening antagonist. In some ways, he is more chilling than Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter. While Lecter is cunning and inventive, a killer without reservation or remorse, at least he has some insight into...
Reactions to Reading, September 27, 2011
...book in this series, I wrote Rather than larger than life serial killers making suits out of human skin (Thomas Harris) or similarly fantastical yarns this was a story that one can imagine happening in the real world. Sadly from my point of view the...
Books LIVE, September 21, 2011
...driving the serial killer in Margie Orford’s Blood Rose (Corvus, Mar.) would be familiar to readers of Thomas Harris, the manifestations of the violence, which can include magical medicine made from human body parts and elements of ancestral worship,...
Keris Stainton, September 19, 2011
...generally don’t read scary books. But I wasn’t so sensible in the past. Red Dragon by Thomas Harris really scared me – I remember trying to read it with my eyes shut. (It didn’t work.) I had to read a Stephen King book at uni –...
American Consumer News, September 19, 2011
...Anderson of the Washington Post: “…a remarkably inventive story of sexual obsession, possibly the most engrossing thriller since Thomas Harris’s ‘The Silence of the Lambs’.” Peter James is one of the world’s best selling crime and thriller...
The Moviefone Blog, August 12, 2011
...in fall 2012. Demme should have no problem raising funds: He's done well with pop novels, from Thomas Harris' 'The Silence of the Lambs' through Richard Condon's 'The Manchurian Candidate.'Time travel to save assassinated presidents has long been a...
The Serial Killer Files, August 2, 2011
...Ever wonder what your fellow blog friend sounds like in real life? Click HERE to see my first one-minute vlog, in which I manage not to swear once (at least not in the final, edited version).Admittedly, I'm not much of a joiner when it comes to blogfests...
Fave Read, July 28, 2011
...the Night-time – Mark Haddon. 5. The Notebook – Nicholas Sparks. 6. Silence of The Lambs/Hannibal etc. – Thomas Harris. 7. The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold. 8. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson. 9. The Perks of Being a...