William Thomas Harris III was born on September 22,1940 and is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter.
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10 Facts About Thomas Harris
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Thomas Harris was introverted and bookish in grade school and then blossomed in high school.
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Thomas Harris attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he majored in English and graduated in 1964.
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Thomas Harris was always close to his mother Polly and called her every night no matter where he was.
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Thomas Harris often discussed particular scenes from his novels with her.
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Thomas Harris loves cooking—he's done the Le Cordon Bleu exams—and it's great fun to sit with him in the kitchen while he prepares a meal and see that he's as happy as a clam.
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Thomas Harris has these old-fashioned manners, a courtliness you associate with the South.
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The staff were not aware of who Thomas Harris was until a few years prior to when the interview was conducted.
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Thomas Harris described fame as "more of a nuisance than anything else".
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Fellow novelist Stephen King remarked that if writing is sometimes tedious for other authors, to Thomas Harris it is like "writhing on the floor in agonies of frustration", because for Thomas Harris, "the very act of writing is a kind of torment".
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