20 Facts About Frank Harris

Frank Harris was an Irish-American editor, novelist, short story writer, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day.

Frank Harris traveled in continental Europe before settling in London to pursue a career in journalism.

Frank Harris was born James Thomas Frank Harris in 1855, in Galway, Ireland, to Welsh parents.

Frank Harris's father, Thomas Vernon Harris, was a naval officer from Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Frank Harris was unhappy at the school and ran away within a year.

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Frank Harris ran away to the United States in late 1869, arriving in New York City virtually penniless.

From New York Frank Harris moved to the American Midwest, settling in the country's second largest city, Chicago, where he took a job as a hotel clerk and eventually a manager.

Frank Harris eventually grew tired of life in the cattle industry and enrolled at the University of Kansas, where he studied law and earned a degree, gaining admission to the Kansas state bar association.

Frank Harris was not cut out to be a lawyer and soon decided to turn his attention to literature.

Frank Harris moved to England in 1882, later traveling to various cities in Germany, Austria, France, and Greece on his literary quest.

Frank Harris worked briefly as an American newspaper correspondent before settling down in England to seriously pursue the vocation of journalism.

From 1908 to 1914 Frank Harris concentrated on working as a novelist, authoring a series of popular books such as The Bomb, The Man Shakespeare, and The Yellow Ticket and Other Stories.

Frank Harris wrote short stories and novels, two books on Shakespeare, a series of biographical sketches in five volumes under the title Contemporary Portraits and biographies of his friends Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw.

Frank Harris was buried at Cimetiere Sainte-Marguerite, adjacent to the Cimetiere Caucade, in the same city.

Frank Harris had specifically warned Wilde against prosecuting Queensberry for criminal libel, which led to his downfall.

Volume by Frank Harris held up the couch in "Six Big Boobies" episode of 'Allo 'Allo.

On television, Harris was played by Leonard Rossiter in a 1978 BBC Play of the Week: Fearless Frank, or, Tidbits From The Life Of An Adventurer.

Frank Harris appears as a close friend of Oscar Wilde in the award-winning play by Moises Kaufman: Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.

Frank Harris appears in the first episode of the 2001 miniseries The Infinite Worlds of H G Wells, rejecting a story from Wells for being too long and too preposterous.

Frank Harris appears as a vampire in Kim Newman's 1992 novel Anno Dracula, as the mentor and vampire sire of one of the novel's main characters.