Mark Harris (author)

Mark Harris, Mark Harris actually Finkelstein ( born November 19, 1922 in Mount Vernon, USA, † 30 May, 2007 Santa Barbara, California ) was an American author.

Life

After he had served during the 2nd World War in the United States Army, worked as a journalist in New York City, St. Louis, and Chicago before joining the University of Denver where he graduated in 1951. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Minnesota in 1956 and then taught at various universities. He was from 1980 to 2001 a professorship in English at Arizona State University. His first novel, Trumpet to the World, was published in 1946.

Harris died in 2007 from Alzheimer's in Santa Barbara. He is survived by his wife, Josephine Horen, two sons and a daughter.

Works

Novels

  • Trumpet to the World (1946 )
  • The Southpaw (1953 )
  • Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) 1973 filmed under the title The last game
  • Something about a Soldier (1957 )
  • A ticket for a Seamstitch (1957 )
  • Wake Up, Stupid (1959 )
  • The Goy (1970 )
  • Killing Everybody (1973 )
  • It Looked Like For Ever (1979 )
  • Lying In Bed ( 1 984 )
  • Speed ​​( 1990)
  • The Tale Maker ( 1994)

Non-fiction

  • City of Discontent: An Interpretive Biography of Vachel Lindsay ( 1952)
  • Mark the Glove Boy, or The Last Days of Richard Nixon (1964 )
  • Twentyone Twice: A Journal ( 1966)
  • Best Father Ever Invented: The Autobiography Of Mark Harris (1976 )
  • Saul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck (1980 )
  • Diamond - The Baseball Writings of Mark Harris (1994 )
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