Colin Harrison

Author profile

born

January 01, 1960 in New York City, The United States

gender

male

genre

Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Short Stories

influences

William Styron; John O'Hara and John Gardner

About this author

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Colin Harrison is a crime novelist. He is a vice president and senior editor at Scribner.
He lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with his wife, the writer Kathryn Harrison, and their three children (Sarah, Walker and Julia).

He attended: Haverford College, BA 1982; University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. MFA 1986

His short nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Vogue, Salon, Worth, and other various publications.

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Books by Colin Harrison

Average rating: 3.43 · 1,194 ratings · 234 reviews · 49 distinct works

	The Finder 3.26 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions	My rating:
	The Havana Room: A Novel 3.52 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2003 — 24 editions	My rating:
	Manhattan Nocturne 3.40 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	My rating:
	Risk: A Novel 3.40 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Afterburn: A Novel 3.40 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Bodies Electric 3.67 avg rating — 67 ratings — 13 editions	My rating:
	Break And Enter 3.42 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Afterburn 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Birds Of The World by Colin Harrison, Alan Greensmith, K.E.L. Simmons 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy by Colin Harrison, Christopher Newall 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010	My rating: