Robert Harris (novelist)
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Harris at a reading in Cologne in November 2008
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7 March 1957 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England |
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| Occupation | Novelist | ||
| Language | English | ||
| Nationality | British | ||
| Education | King Edward VII School | ||
| Alma mater | Selwyn College, Cambridge | ||
| Period | 1982 - present | ||
| Genre | Fiction | ||
| Subject | Historical fiction | ||
| Notable works | Fatherland | ||
| Notable awards |
César Award Columnist of the Year |
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| Spouse | Gill Hornby | ||
| Children | 4 | ||
| Relatives | Nick Hornby (brother-in-law) | ||
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Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957) is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC television reporter. Although he began his career in non-fiction, his fame rests upon his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller Fatherland, Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His most recent works centre on contemporary history.
Born in Nottingham, Harris spent his childhood in a small rented house on a Nottingham council estate. His ambition to become a writer arose at an early age, from visits to the local printing plant where his father worked. Harris went to Belvoir High School in Bottesford, and then King Edward VII School, Melton Mowbray, where a hall was named after him. There he wrote plays and edited the school magazine. Harris read English literature at Selwyn College, Cambridge, where he was president of the Union and editor of the student newspaper Varsity.
After leaving Cambridge, Harris joined the BBC and worked on news and current affairs programmes such as Panorama and Newsnight. In 1987, at the age of thirty, he became political editor of The Observer. He later wrote regular columns for the Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph.
Harris's first book appeared in 1982. A Higher Form of Killing, a study of chemical and biological warfare, was written with fellow BBC journalist Jeremy Paxman. Other non-fiction works followed: Gotcha, the Media, the Government and the Falklands Crisis (1983), The Making of Neil Kinnock (1984), Selling Hitler (1986), an investigation of the Hitler Diaries scandal, and Good and Faithful Servant (1990), a study of Bernard Ingham, Margaret Thatcher's press secretary.
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