| 1946 | Trumpet to the World. Harris's first novel concerns a young black soldier married to a white woman. He is put on trial for striking a white officer, who had struck him first. Harris, born in Mount Vernon, New York, would be best known for his novels featuring Henry W. Wiggen, such as Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) and A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957). |
| 1953 | The Southpaw. Harris initiates a novel sequence involving baseball pitcher Henry Wiggen of the New York Mammoths. The series, considered one of the greatest fictional depictions of the sport, would be continued in Bang the Drum Slowly (1956), A Ticket for a Seamstitch (1957), and It Looked Like for Ever (1979). |
| 1956 | Bang the Drum Slowly. Most consider this second of Harris's baseball novels concerning New York Mammoths pitcher Henry Wiggens his finest. It concerns a catcher dying of Hodgkin's disease and his relationship with his teammates. |
