![]() A year later he accepted a position with PM in New York City but was fired after two months. Harris joined The Daily Item of Port Chester, New York, as a reporter in May 1944. His wartime experience formed the basis for two of his novels, Trumpet to the World (1946) and Something About a Soldier (1957). He was honorably discharged in April 1944. He was soon arrested and then hospitalized for psychoneurosis. His growing opposition to war and his anger at the prevalence of racial discrimination in the Army led him to go AWOL from Camp Wheeler, Georgia, in February 1944. He was drafted into the United States Army in January 1943. ![]() At the age of 11, he began keeping a diary, which he would maintain for every day of his life thereafter.Īfter graduating in 1940 from Mount Vernon High School, he dropped his surname because "it was a difficult time for kids with Jewish names to get jobs." He subsequently went to work for Paul Winkler's Press Alliance news agency in New York City as a messenger and mimeograph operator. Harris was born Mark Harris Finkelstein in Mount Vernon, New York, to Carlyle and Ruth (Klausner) Finkelstein. ![]()
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