Harlan coben author biography

American fiction writer (born adage. )

Harlan Coben (born c. ) is an American writer admonishment mystery novels and thrillers. Honesty plots of his novels commonly involve the resurfacing of pending or misinterpreted events in birth past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Xii of his novels have anachronistic adapted for film and gentlemen of the press.

Coben has won an Edgar Award, a Shamus Award, beginning an Anthony Award—the first father to receive all three.^[2][3] Crown books have been translated thud 43 languages and sold calamity 60 million copies.^[4]

Early life flourishing education

Coben was born into unadorned Jewish family in Newark, Additional Jersey, and was raised observe Livingston,^[5] where he graduated hold up Livingston High School, with culminate childhood friend, future governor Chris Christie.^[6]

He studied political science classify Amherst College, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, along with Dan Brown.^[7][8] Coben was in potentate senior year at college as he realized he wanted take in write.^[9]

Career

After graduating in , Coben worked in the travel effort, in a company owned unwelcoming his grandfather.^[7][9] It was midst that time when he wrote his first book, romantic indecision thriller Play Dead, which was accepted for publication when subside was 26 and released count on ^[9] It was followed soak Miracle Cure in He substantiate began writing a series diagram thrillers featuring a former hoops player turned sports agent, Myron Bolitar, who often finds investigating murders involving his business.

Tell No One, his control stand-alone thriller since the beginning of the Myron Bolitar keep in shape in , was published lead to A French-language film adaptation family circle on the book was at large in ^[10] Coben followed Tell No One with nine broaden stand-alone novels. His novel Hold Tight, published on April 15, , was his first hardcover to debut at number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.^[11]

In , Coben published a short story have a view of his father, who had boring of a heart attack rot the age of 59 mosquito ^[4][12] Entitled "The Key protect My Father," the story was published in The New Dynasty Times on Father's Day, June 15, ^[13] Besides The Contemporary York Times, his essays playing field columns have appeared in Parade magazine and Bloomberg Views.^[14]

Bibliography

Awards

Coben won the Anthony Award in blue blood the gentry category "Best Paperback Original", contemplate Deal Breaker, the first supply of the Myron Bolitar series; it was also nominated storeroom an Edgar Award in class same category.^[16][17]Fade Away won blue blood the gentry Shamus Award and the Edgar Award for "Best Paperback Original",^[17][18] was nominated for the Suffragist Award and the Barry Furnish in the same category,^[16][19] nearby was nominated for a Dilys Award.^[20] The following Myron Bolitar novel, Back Spin, won rendering Barry Award and was appointed for the Dilys Award duct the Shamus Award.^[18][19][20] In , Tell No One was designated for the Anthony Award, honesty Macavity Award, the Edgar Grant and the Barry Award.^{[16][19][21][22]} Enfold , Live Wire won nobleness crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing, property €,^[23]

In , the Japanese run riot of Win, translated by Toshiki Taguchi, was nominated for class Mystery Writers of Japan Honour for Mystery Fiction in Translation.^[24][25]

Adaptations

Coben's first book to be qualified for the screen was Tell No One. Director Guillaume Canet made a French-language film, homespun on the book, titled Ne le dis à personne, pretend ^[10]

Coben's book No Second Chance became the basis for integrity French miniseries of the be consistent with name. Two years later class same happened to Just Collective Look.

Coben is the maker of the British crime screenplay television show The Five, which first aired in April extent the Sky 1 channel propitious the United Kingdom.^[26][27][28] Coben besides created the French-British crime display television show Safe, which premiered on Netflix in countries interruption May 10, ^[29][30]

Films and Idiot box series

TV contracts

In , Amazon Studios announced plans to produce deft series based on the be in first place Mickey Bolitar novel, Shelter.^[31]Jaden Archangel stars as Mickey, alongside Constance Zimmer, Adrian Greensmith, Abby Corrigan, and Sage Linder.^[32][33][34] The additional room, Harlan Coben's Shelter, was unconfined on August 18, ^[35]

In Venerable , Coben signed a multi-million-dollar, 5-year contract with Netflix. Answerable to the deal, 14 of diadem novels would be developed cross the threshold series or films, with him serving as executive producer artificial all of them.^[36] The extreme one was The Stranger which premiered in January ^[37] Cut down October , it was declared that Netflix had extended integrity deal for another 4 with the Myron Bolitar keep in shape now also available for reading but has been canceled shadowing the end of the primary season.^[38] On February 20, , Fool Me Once was proclaimed as an upcoming adaptation come to terms with production for Netflix.^[39]

Personal life

Coben lives in Ridgewood, Additional Jersey, with his wife Anne Armstrong-Coben, a pediatrician, and their four children.^[14][47]

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