David Harris has raised two children, has played in a lot of pick up basketball games, belongs to a local peace group, is an original member of the Global Business Network, and is a practising freelance Buddhist.  He has lived in Mill Valley, California, on the edge of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area across the bridge from San Francisco for the last 25 years.

In his most recent book, Harris returned to the subject of professional football.  The Genius: How Bill Walsh Reinvented Football and Created an NFL Dynasty was written for Mark Tavani and Bob Loomis at Random House.  It is a biography of the most seminal figure in the game’s Super Bowl era, tracking Bill Walsh’s decade as President, General Manager, and Head Coach of the San Francisco Forty Niners.  Constructed out of a series of interviews over the last year of Walsh’s life—with Walsh, his players, associates, friends, and loved ones—it was published in time for football season, 2008.