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. Among his novels are two series, each involving the same protagonist set in and around New York and New Jersey; some characters appear in both.

Harlan Coben
Born (1962-01-04) January 4, 1962
Newark, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationAuthor
ResidenceRidgewood, New Jersey, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Alma materAmherst College
Period1990–present
GenreMystery, thriller
Notable worksMyron Bolitar series of novels
Notable awardsAnthony Award (1996),
Edgar Award and Shamus Award (1997)
SpouseAnne Armstrong-Coben
Website
www.harlancoben.com

Early life and education

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 and future politician Chris Christie.[1] While studying political science at Amherst College, he joined Psi Upsilon fraternity, along with the writer Dan Brown.

Career

After Amherst, Coben worked in the travel industry, in a company owned by his grandfather.[2]

Coben was in his senior year at college when he realized he wanted to write. His first book was accepted for publication when he was twenty-six. His thriller Play Dead was published in 1990, 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.

Coben has won an Edgar Award, a Shamus Award and an Anthony Award. He wrote a short story, "The Key to My Father," which appeared on June 15, 2003.

Tell No One, his first stand-alone thriller since the creation of the Myron Bolitar series in 1995, was published in 2001. Director Guillaume Canet made a French-language film based on the book, titled Ne le dis à personne, in 2006. Coben followed Tell No One with nine more stand-alone novels. His novel Hold Tight, released on April 15, 2008, was his first book to debut at number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Personal life

Coben lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey, with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben, a pediatrician,[3] and their four children.[4]

Movies and TV Series

The first movie based on one of Coben's books was the French Tell No One.

Coben's 2003 book No Second Chance became the basis for the 2015 French miniseries No Second Chance. Two years later the same happened to Just One Look.

Coben is the creator of the British crime drama television show The Five, which first aired on April 2016 on the Sky 1 channel in the United Kingdom.[5][6][7]

Coben is also the creator of the French-British crime drama television show Safe, which premiered in 190 countries on 10 May 2018.[8][9]

His 2015 novel The Stranger was adapted for Netflix as The Stranger (2020), starring Richard Armitage.[10] His 2007 novel The Woods was adapted for Netflix in Poland as W głębi lasu where he served also as executive producer. The series was released in June 2020.[11]

Bibliography
Series Year Title
Myron Bolitar 1995 Deal Breaker
1996 Drop Shot
Fade Away
1997 Back Spin
1998 One False Move
1999 The Final Detail
2000 Darkest Fear
2006 Promise Me
2009 Long Lost
2011 Live Wire
2016 Home
Mickey Bolitar 2011 Shelter
2012 Seconds Away
2014 Found
Standalone Novels 1990 Play Dead
1991 Miracle Cure
2001 Tell No One
2002 Gone for Good
2003 No Second Chance
2004 Just One Look
2005 The Innocent
2007 The Woods
2008 Hold Tight
2010 Caught
2012 Stay Close
2013 Six Years
2014 Missing You
2015 The Stranger
2016 Fool Me Once
2017 Don't Let Go
2019 Run Away
2020 The Boy from the Woods
2021 Win

Awards

Coben won the 1996 Anthony Award in the category "Best Paperback Original", for Deal Breaker, the first volume of the Myron Bolitar series; it was also nominated for an Edgar Award in the same category.[12][13] Fade Away won the 1997 Shamus Award and the Edgar Award for "Best Paperback Original",[13][14] was nominated for the Anthony Award and the Barry Award in the same category,[12][15] and was nominated for a Dilys Award.[16] The following Myron Bolitar novel, Back Spin, won the 1998 Barry Award and was nominated for the Dilys Award and the Shamus Award.[14][15][16] In 2002, Tell No One was nominated for the Anthony Award, the Macavity Award, the Edgar Award and the Barry Award.[12][15][17][18] In 2010, Live Wire won the crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing, worth €125,000.[19]

gollark: * *eat* the rich
gollark: I see.
gollark: How is it "stealing people's jobs" to replace them with a more efficient system?!
gollark: Probably are: see politics, advertising.
gollark: *Someone else* could, though.

References
  1. Coben, Harlan (November 5, 2009). "Chris Christie Confidential". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2015.
  2. Black, Michael Ian (August 30, 2016), How to be Amazing with Michael Ian Black, Stitcher.com, retrieved September 21, 2016
  3. "Bio". HarlanCoben.com. Retrieved November 30, 2014.
  4. Dick Lochte (2004). "A Conversation With Harlan Coben". mysteryscenemag.com. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  5. Sarah Hughes (March 7, 2016). "Harlan Coben on 'The Five' for Sky, his obsessive nature, and missing his friend David Foster Wallace". The Independent. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  6. "Harlan Coben : "The Five est ma première série originale"". TVMag Le Figaro (in French). Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  7. Neil Procter. "The Five (TV Series 2016– )". IMDb. Retrieved May 9, 2016.
  8. Tartaglione, Nancy (July 11, 2017). "Michael C Hall To Play It 'Safe' In Netflix, Canal+ Drama From Harlan Coben". Deadline. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
  9. Ryan, Maureen (April 11, 2018). "TV Review: Harlan Coben's 'Safe' on Netflix". Variety. Retrieved April 12, 2018.
  10. "Netflix Orders 'The Stranger' With Richard Armitage in New Harlan Coben Series". Variety. January 28, 2019.
  11. "Koniec zdjęć do "W głębi lasu" Netflixa. W rolach głównych Agnieszka Grochowska i Grzegorz Damięcki". Wirtualne Media. December 5, 2019.
  12. "Bouchercon World Mystery Convention : Anthony Awards Nominees". Bouchercon. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  13. "Best Paperback Original Mystery Novel Edgar Award Winners and Nominees – Complete Lists". Mystery Net. Archived from the original on December 20, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  14. "The Private Eye Writers of America and The Shamus Awards". Thrilling Detective. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  15. "Barry Awards". Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. Archived from the original on April 23, 2012. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  16. "The Dilys Award (IMBA)". Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. Archived from the original on April 12, 2010. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  17. "Macavity Awards". Mystery Readers International. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  18. "Edgar Award Winners and Nominees in the Private Eye Genre". Thrilling Detective. Retrieved April 20, 2012.
  19. "Harlan Coben wins the 4th RBA Prize for Crime Writing with his novel 'Live Wire'". Catalan News Wire. September 10, 2010. Retrieved September 13, 2013.
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