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Published15 juillet 1988
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About the author
Thomas Harris
Author
William Thomas Harris III is an American writer. He is the author of a series of suspense novels about Hannibal Lecter. The majority of his works have been adapted into films and television, including The Silence of the Lambs, which became only the third film in Academy Awards history to sweep the Oscars in all of the five major categories.
The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
Fiction
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