Since Harris has a blanket policy of not giving interviews, reviewers and fans can only guess about what he draws from in creating allusions of evil and judgments regarding what spawns it and drives it. To individuals inquiring about the motivation for his work, Harris points to the work itself, maintaining that it should speak for itself.
Harris was born in Jackson, Tennessee (some sources say Mississippi), in 1940. His father, William Thomas Harris, Jr., was an electric engineer, and his mother, Polly, was a high school science teacher. When his father decided to take up farming for a living, he moved with his family as a small child to Rich, Mississippi, where he spent the rest of his youth. Harris's mother described him as a gentle boy who had a voracious appetite for reading and learning. Harris pursued his enjoyment of the written word in college as an English major in college, graduating with a bachelor's degree from Baylor University in 1964. While in college, he married a Baylor co-ed, with whom he had a daughter, Anne, in 1962. Although his marriage did not make it into the 1970s, he maintained a closeness with his daughter, who went to work in publishing as an adult.
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