He 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. If you met him, you would think he was a choirmaster. He is big, bearded and wonderfully jovial. Harris' friend and literary agent Morton Janklow said of him: 'He's one of the good guys. His long-term domestic partner is Pace Barnes, a woman who, according to USA Today, 'used to work in publishing and is as outgoing as he is quiet'. Harris lives in South Florida and has a summer home in Sag Harbor, New York. He often discussed particular scenes from his novels with her. Harris remained close to his mother Polly and called her every night no matter where he was. They had one daughter, Elizabeth Anne, before they divorced in August 1968. At Baylor University, he met and married Harriet Anne Haley, a fellow student, in June 1961. Harris avoids publicity and conducted few interviews between 19. In 1968, he moved to New York City to work for Associated Press until 1974 when he began work on his debut novel, Black Sunday. While in college, he worked as a reporter for the local newspaper, the Waco Tribune-Herald, covering the police beat. He attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where he majored in English and graduated in 1964. He was introverted and bookish in grade school and then blossomed in high school. Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee, but moved as a child with his family to Rich, Mississippi. The majority of his works have been adapted into films and television, the most notable being The Silence of the Lambs, which became only the third film in Academy Awards history to sweep the Oscars in major categories. William Thomas Harris III (born September 22, 1940) is an American writer, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter.

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