Harlan Coben

Harlan Coben born January 4 1962 is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past murders or fatal accidents and have multiple twists Twelve of his novels have been adapted for film and television Coben has won an Edgar Award a Shamus Award and an Anthony Awardthe first author to receive all three His books have been translated into 46 languages and sold over 90 million copies Coben was born into a Jewish family in Newark New Jersey and was raised in Livingston where he graduated from Livingston High School with his childhood friend future governor Chris Christie His brother is the noted businessman Lawrence S Coben He studied political science at Amherst College where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity along with Dan Brown Coben was in his senior year at college when he realized he wanted to write After graduating in 1984 Coben worked in the travel industry in a company owned by his grandfather It was during that time when he wrote his first book romantic suspense thriller Play Dead which was accepted for publication when he was 26 and released in 1990 It was followed by Miracle Cure in 1991 He then began writing a series of thrillers featuring a former basketball player turned sports agent Myron Bolitar who often finds himself investigating murders involving his clients Tell No One his first standalone thriller since the creation of the Myron Bolitar series in 1995 was published in 2001 A Frenchlanguage film adaptation based on the book was released in 2006 Coben followed Tell No One with nine more standalone novels His novel Hold Tight published on April 15 2008 was his first book to debut at number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list In 2003 Coben published a short story about his father who had died of a heart attack at the age of 59 in 1988 Entitled The Key to My Father the story was published in The New York Times on Fathers Day June 15 2003 Besides The New York Times his essays and columns have appeared in Parade magazine and Bloomberg Views Coben lives in Ridgewood New Jersey with his wife Anne ArmstrongCoben a pediatrician and their four children Description above from the Wikipedia article Harlan Coben licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia