Mark Harris
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Mark Harris born Mark Harris Finkelstein
- Born November 19, 1922 in Mount Vernon, NY USA
- Died May 30, 2007
Mark Harris was the author of four baseball novels and one collection of baseball essays in addition to 13 other books, fiction and nonfiction. Harris's most notable work was Bang the Drum Slowly, which was later turned into a movie starring Robert DeNiro. Harris was an advocate of realism in sports novels. He taught at English departments in at least six different colleges and was a professor at Arizona State University from 1980-2001. He died in 2007 of complications from Alzheimer's Disease.
Source: Obituary by Dennis McLellan in the Los Angeles Times (as picked up by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
