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(1922-2007) Novelist, biographer. Mark Harris was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and died in Santa Barbara, California. He was known for his novels about a mythical baseball player.

Full Name

Mark Harris

Locations

Westchester

Author's Timeline


1922

BIRTH

Mark Harris Finkelstein was born in Mount Vernon, New York, on November 19, 1922.

1940

OTHER

Mr. Harris graduated from Mount Vernon High school in 1940.

1945

OTHER

Mr. Harris worked for a newspaper in Port Chester, New York.

1946

LITWORK

Trumpet to the World
Reynal & Hitchcock

Novel.

1953

LITWORK

The Southpaw
Bobbs-Merrill

Novel.

1956

LITWORK

Bang The Drum Slowly
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
0394416007 / 978-0394416007
Novel.

1957

LITWORK

A Ticket for a Seamstitch
Alfred A. Knopf
1299581587 / 978-1299581586
Novel.

1957

LITWORK

Something About A Soldier
Macmillan Company

Novel.

1959

LITWORK

Wake Up, Stupid
Knopf

Novel.

1964

LITWORK

Mark the Glove Boy, or the Last Days of Richard Nixon
The Macmillan Company, New York

Nonfiction.

1976

LITWORK

Best Father Ever Invented
Dial Press

Autobiography.

1979

LITWORK

It Looked Like For Ever
McGraw-Hill
0070267200 / 978-0070267206
Novel.

1980

LITWORK

Saul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck
University of Georgia Press

Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

Diamond
Dutton Adult
1556113986 / 978-1556113987
Collection of baseball essays.

2007

DEATH

Mark Harris died at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California, on May 30, 2007.

2007

INTERMENT

Mark Harris's remains were cremated.

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