David Harris was born on 28 February 1946 in Fresno, California, USA. He was married to Cheri Forrester, Lacey Fosburgh and Joan Baez. He died on 6 February 2023 in Mill Valley, California, USA.
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.