David Harris est né le 28 février 1946 en Californie, États-Unis. Il était marié à Cheri Forrester, Lacey Fosburgh et Joan Baez. Il est mort le 6 février 2023 en Californie, États-Unis.
Protegé of Allard K. Lowenstein, a political organizer and later
one-term Democratic congressman from New York. In the early 1980s,
Lowenstein was shot to death by Harris's onetime friend Dennis Sweeney.
Harris wrote the book 'Dreams Die Hard' about his experiences with
Lowenstein and Sweeney, and about the events leading up to the
shooting.