[1] Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA.
Sister: Martha Harris
Wife: Josephine Horen (until his death, two sons, one daughter)
Son: Henry
Son: Anthony
Daughter: Hester
University: BA English, University of Denver
University: MA, University of Denver (1951)
University: PhD American Studies, University of Minnesota (1956)
Teacher: University of Minnesota
Teacher: San Francisco State University
Teacher: Purdue University
Teacher: California Institute of the Arts
Teacher: University of Southern California
Teacher: University of Pittsburgh
Professor: Creative Writing, Arizona State University (1980-2001)
Bill Bradley for President
Risk Factors: Alzheimer's
Author of books:
Trumpet to the World (1946, novel)
City of Discontent: An Interpretive Biography of Vachel Lindsay (1952, biography)
The Southpaw (1953, novel)
Bang the Drum Slowly (1956, novel)
Something about a Soldier (1957, novel)
A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957, novel)
Wake Up, Stupid (1959, novel)
Mark the Glove Boy, or The Last Days of Richard Nixon (1964, biography)
Twentyone Twice: A Journal (1966, journal)
The Goy (1970, novel)
Killing Everybody (1973, novel)
Best Father Ever Invented: The Autobiography of Mark Harris (1976, memoir)
It Looked Like For Ever (1979, novel)
Saul Bellow: Drumlin Woodchuck (1980, biography)
Lying In Bed (1984, novel)
Speed (1990, novel)
The Tale Maker (1994, novel)
Diamond: The Baseball Writings of Mark Harris (1994, anthology)
