Thomas Harris is an American author and screenwriter, best known for a series of suspense novels about his most famous character, Hannibal Lecter. All of his works have been made into films, and now his entire Hannibal concept is being written for television, most notably for NBC's Hannibal.
Harris avoids publicity, so relatively little is known about the author for most of his career. In 2019, he granted his first interview since 1976 to the New York Times, revealing Harris as a nature-lover and longtime volunteer to an animal rescue center in Miami, Florida.[2] According to literary agent Morton Janklow, Harris is also an avid cook.[3]
Hannibal Lecter novels[]
- Red Dragon (1981)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
- Hannibal (1999)
- Hannibal Rising (2006)
Harris’s first wrote Black Sunday (1975) which did not feature Hannibal Lecter or anyone from that verse, and is completely unrelated to his four other books. Harris later wrote Cari Mora (2019), again not featuring Lecter.
Films based on the Hannibal Lecter novels[]
- Manhunter (1986)
- The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
- Hannibal (2001)
- Red Dragon (2002)
- Hannibal Rising (2007) - For the first time, Harris wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation.
Hannibal Lecter television series[]
Unlicensed Adaptations[]
- The Shadow in the Dark (1986), an episode of TV Series "Miami Vice" which is a loose adaptation of "Red Dragon" (and is also produced by director of Manhunter, Michael Mann)
- Sangharsh (1999), an unlicensed remake of The Silence of the Lambs made in India.
External Links[]
- ↑ Texas Birth Index, 1093-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/18/books/thomas-harris-new-book.html
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/nov/19/fiction.thomasharris