![]() ![]() In 1968 Harris took a job with the Associated Press in New York, working as a crime reporter and editor and learning about police procedure in homicide investigations. ![]() While at Baylor, Harris wrote and submitted dark, meticulously crafted short stories to publications such as True and Argosy. Though he found the job uninspiring, the experience and insight he gained into police work served him well in his later writings. Harris earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, in 1964, while working at night as a police reporter for the Waco Tribune-Herald. Ernest Hemingway was one of his favorite authors. Harris exhibited a love of books at an early age and spent much of his time reading. Harris attended Clarksdale High School, where his mother taught biology. When he was a young boy, he and his parents, William and Polly, moved to a farm in his father’s hometown, Rich, Mississippi. The author of The Silence of the Lambs and other novels of suspense, William Thomas Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, in 1940. ![]()
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