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The Silence of the Lambs was published in 1988 and includes madmen and a strong-willed female. The third novel written by Harris is considered a masterpiece of suspense by many people.

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Red Dragon also became a popular movie called Manhunter.

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This novel is the story of an FBI agent’s search for a serial killer and contains Harris’s character psychotic psychiatrist Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter. Harris does a lot of research for his fiction, so his second book Red Dragon was not published until 1981. Published in 1975, the book became a best seller and a successful movie. His first book, Black Sunday, is about Arab terrorist and a Vietnam veteran who try to bomb the Super Bowl. His experiences as a crime reporter gave him information he used in his later writings. His father died during this period of his life as well.Īfter college Harris moved to New York and held a job as editor for the Associated Press in New York. While at Baylor, he wrote numerous stories to magazines like True and Argosy that were gothic and detailed.ĭuring this time Harris met his wife Harriet and they had a daughter named Anne before they divorced in the 60’s. While in Waco he worked for the Herald Tribune as a police reporter but found it very unimaginative. Not much information is available about the life of Harris, but after high school, he went to Baylor University in Waco, Texas, to earn a major in English.

His mother reports that he spent most of his time reading and writing, and that Hemmingway was a favorite writer. He attended Clarksdale High School, where his mother taught biology. Thomas Harris, author of three national bestsellers, was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but moved to Rich, Mississippi, with his parents, William and Polly, early in his life.

Cara Mora (May 2019) Grand Central Publishing.

Later, I lent the novel to my boss at the time who told me he had missed a couple of meetings because he was so engrossed in the story.MAJOR WORKS BIOGRAPHY REVIEWS RELATED WEBSITES BIBLIOGRAPHY Major Works I well remember staying up late to finish Silence of the Lambs. We should completely forget the feeble Hannibal Rising, the fourth novel about Lecter. Harris first introduced Lecter in Red Dragon and followed up Silence of the Lambswith Hannibal, a well-plotted novel that showed what happened to Lecter and Starling. Salazar.” This interaction lead him to create Hannibal Lecter. Harris says that during a trip to a prison in Monterrey, Mexico, to interview an American inmate accused of murder, he met a prisoner, whom he nicknamed “Dr. What is surprising about this new edition of Silence of the Lambs is that Harris has written an “author’s note” describing his inspiration for the novel. To celebrate its 25 th anniversary, naturally a new edition of the novel has been released. Silence of the Lambs was third film to win those five major Oscars. The 1991 film won five Academy Awards: best picture, best director for Jonathan Demme best actor for Hopkins, best actress for Foster and best writing for adapted screenplay for Ted Tally. Silence of the Lambs, of course, made an engrossing movie starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins. We had seen fictional killers before but never one so intelligent, a psychiatrist no less, and so manipulative.

The appeal of Harris’ novel was not the details of the killer dubbed Buffalo Bill, but rather the relationship between the novice FBI agent Clarice Starling and the brilliant and deranged killer Dr. And 25 years later, Silence of the Lambs still is the standard for the serial killer novel. At the time, this was a ground-breaking novel, setting a high bar for the serial killer novel. At least that is what it feels like when we remember something that seems like it was just yesterday but really happened 25 years ago.Ī quarter of a century ago this month, Thomas Harris’ Silence of the Lambs was published.

25 years can go by in the wink of an eye.