Harris wrote "Black Sunday" (1975), "Red Dragon" (1981), "The Silence of the Lambs" (1988), "Hannibal" (1999), "Hannibal Rising" (2006) and "Cari Mora" (2019). Most of his works have been made into movies and television shows. The most notable is "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), which became only the third movie in Academy Awards history to sweep the Oscars in major categories.