[7] She graduated from Wheaton College, where she served as editor of the school's yearbook, with a bachelor's degree in English in 1962.

With the help of filmmaker Philip Courter, the students' footage was compiled into a film, Child’s Eye View.

[7] In 1977, Harris released her first book, Before You Were Three: How You Began to Walk, Talk, Explore, and Have Feelings, which she co-wrote with her friend and cousin Elizabeth Levy.

[10] In 2020, Harris received the inaugural Mills Tannenbaum Award for Children’s Literacy from Reach Out and Read of Greater New York.

[7] She married William W. Harris, whom she met during an interview on her Child's Eye View film project.