Robert Harris

Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957 in Nottingham) is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC TV reporter. 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 is now na... more

Robert Dennis Harris (born 7 March 1957 in Nottingham) is an English novelist. He is a former journalist and BBC TV reporter. 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 is now 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. On coming down from Cambridge, Harris joined the BBC and worked on news and current affairs programes 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... less