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Robert Harris
Full Name: |
Robert
Dennis
Harris |
Born: |
March 7, 1957 Nottingham, England |
Occupation: |
Writer |
Nationality: |
British |
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Biography
Born in Notttingham, 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 thenKing 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.
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.
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