On February 11th Etienne Borgers asked for biographical info about Timothy Harris. This is taken from Robert A. Baker & Michael T. Nietzel's _Private Eyes: 101 Knights_. "Timothy Hyde Harris was born in LA on July 21, 1946 to Donald & Mary Harris. The family left LA when Harris was 6 months old, and he grew up in various cities across Europe & Africa. (He read his first Chandler on a train trip in Switzerland)> Educated at Cambridge where he wrote his first novel, the satiric _Kronski/McSmash_ (Doubleday, 1970) featuring McSmash the far-out detective for the Monterey Narcotics Squad. Harris published under the name Hyde Harris in England. In addition to the 2 Kyds & _Kronski/McSmash_, Harris has novelized 3 screenplays. _American Gigolo_(Dell 1979) was based on a screenplay by Paul Schrader. It is no worse than the movie which starred Richard Gere and Lauren Hutton. _Steelyard Blues_ (Bantam, 1972) was taken from David Ward's screenplay and _Heat Wave_ (Dell, 1979), a great PI story without an official PI, is based on a screenplay by Herschel Weingrod. Weingrod and Harris have collaborated on several original screenplays. _Cheaper to Keep Her_, a romantic comedy starring Mac Davis as a PI, Bill Dekker, was released by American Cinema in 1980. Their best-known effort was the screenplay for the Eddie Murphy-Dan Ackroyd comedy _Trading Places_ which has a wonderful minor role for a cheesey PI played by Paul Gleason. Harris married Mary Bess Walker in 1980. He now lives in LA & is concentrating on film writing." Stephen **************************************************** * * * Stephen Holden * * Queen Mary & Westfield College * * London E1 4NS * * * * Tel. +44 171-975 5549 * * Fax +44 171-975 5588 * * E-mail: s.j.holden@qmw.ac.uk * * WWW: http://www.qmw.ac.uk/ * * * **************************************************** - # RARA-AVIS: To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" # to majordomo@icomm.ca