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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