Thomas Harris (born 1940 in Jackson, Tennessee) is an author, most famous for his book The Silence of the Lambs, which was made into a motion picture starring Jodie Foster as trainee FBI agent Clarice Starling and Anthony Hopkins in an Oscar-winning portrayal of psychopathic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter. The book and successive movie is the sequel to the book Red Dragon (which has also been filmed - first under the title Manhunter (1986) and later Red Dragon (2002)) which also included Lecter as a minor character. He is well known for being private and reportedly reclusive, as he has avoided most media interviews for the past twenty years. He declined to participate in the movie adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs, but when it was finished, he sent to the cast and crew individual cases of wine.

Harris was born in Tennessee but moved as a child with his family to Rich, Mississippi. He attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he majored in English and graduated in 1964. While in college, he worked as reporter for the local newspaper, the Waco Tribune-Herald, covering the police beat. In 1968, he moved to New York to work for the Associated Press.

The deaths of eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics compelled Harris to write the 1975 best-selling book Black Sunday, a fictional novel about the plans of a terrorist group to seize control of a blimp, place a shrapnel bomb on board, and explode it during the Super Bowl. This book was made into a movie starring Robert Shaw and Bruce Dern. It was pointed out that this was the first American novel to feautre a terrorist attack on United States soil. Many pointed out that chilling connection after 9/11 because the terrorists were using an aircraft as a weapon of mass murder.

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Trying to remember the name of the third book in the Hannibal Lecter series (Thomas Harris)...
BurningHawk1969 (Mark BurningHawk) Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:25:21 -0000
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Watched finish From Hell. Not compelling enough. The Hannibal Lecter series are better. But nonetheless, Johnny Depp!!!
kimwhee (Kimberly Wee) Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:54:06 -0000
Watched finish From Hell. Not compelling enough. The Hannibal Lecter series are better. But nonetheless, Johnny Depp!!!

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