David Harris nasceu o 28 de fevereiro de 1946 em Fresno, Califórnia, EUA. Foi casado com Cheri Forrester, Lacey Fosburgh e Joan Baez. Morreu o 6 de fevereiro de 2023 em Califórnia, EUA.
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.
