Colin Harrison





Colin Harrison

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

gender
male

genre

influences
William Styron; John O'Hara and John Gardner


About this author

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.


Average rating: 3.43 · 1,194 ratings · 234 reviews · 49 distinct works
The Finder
3.26 of 5 stars 3.26 avg rating — 348 ratings — published 2008 — 13 editions
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The Havana Room: A Novel
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 241 ratings — published 2003 — 24 editions
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Manhattan Nocturne
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions
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Risk: A Novel
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions
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Afterburn: A Novel
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions
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Bodies Electric
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 67 ratings13 editions
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Break And Enter
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1990 — 7 editions
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Afterburn
3.31 of 5 stars 3.31 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000
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Birds Of The World
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The Pre-Raphaelites and Italy
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4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010
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“I sell mayhem, scandal, murder and doom.”
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