City of discontent

Mark Harris (November 19, 1922 – May 30, 2007) was an American novelist, literary biographer, and educator, remembered for his baseball novels featuring the character Henry Wiggen, particularly Bang the Drum Slowly. Born Mark Harris Finkelstein in Mount Vernon, New York. Harris began his early career as a journalist. After obtaining his doctorate in 1956, Harris became a college lecturer, teaching English primarily at the San Francisco State College and Arizona State University. Harris his first novel was Trumpet to the World (1946).