The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) as Editorial Department
Vantage Point (2008) as Production Manager
Nocturnal Animals (2016) as Production Manager
Short Info
Spouse
Tony Kushner
Mark Harris is an American writer and journalist. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, on March 16, 1957, the son of a Baptist minister and a schoolteacher. Harris was educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he majored in English and journalism. After graduation, he worked as a reporter for The Greensboro News & Record and The Charlotte Observer. He also wrote for Esquire, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine.
Harris’s first book, Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (2008), is a history of the making of the films Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Graduate (1967), Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). His second book, Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War (2014), is about the five most prominent Hollywood directors who served in the military during World War II: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Harris’s third book, Mike Nichols: A Life (2020), is a biography of the film director Mike Nichols. Harris is also the author of the play The Front Page (2016), which was produced Off-Broadway by the Atlantic Theater Company.
He lives in New York City with his wife, the writer Jennifer Szalai.
General Info
Full Name
Mark Harris
Profession
Actor, Journalist, Film producer
Nationality
American
Family
Spouse
Tony Kushner
Accomplishments
Awards
Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject, Spur Award for Best Juvenile
