Mark Harris

Bang the Drum Slowly

originally published:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf
1956

We offered this copy of the first edition, with a long inscription from the author, in our List 55.

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born: 9/19/1922
died: 5/30/2007
born as: Mark Harris Finkelstein

American educator, literary biographer, and novelist best known for his series of baseball novels centering on Henry Wiggen, a pitcher for the fictional New York Mammoths. The best known of these is the second book in the series, Bang the Drum Slowly.

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