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Colin Harrison (born 1960 in New York City) is an American novelist and editor.

Harrison is the author of seven novels, Break and Enter (1990), Bodies Electric (1993), Manhattan Nocturne (1996), Afterburn (2000), The Havana Room (2004, The Finder (2008), and Risk (2009), which was first published as a fifteen-part serial in the New York Times magazine in 2008. Four of his books were selected as Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. The Finder was a finalist for the 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 2009 Dashiell Hammett Award. All are atmospheric novels of violence and suspense that explore the underside of city life, most particularly in New York. Although his novels invariably involve the money and power that is concentrated in Manhattan, his stories usually snake through the outer boroughs as well, in particular through Brooklyn, which has served as a setting for scenes in Bodies Electric (Park Slope and Sunset Park), Manhattan Nocturne (East New York), The Finder (Marine Park, Bensonhurst) and Risk (Canarsie).

His short nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Vogue, Salon, Worth, and other publications and anthologies. He lives in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, with his wife, the writer Kathryn Harrison. He was an editor at Harper's Magazine from 1989 until 2001 and in that time worked with such writers as David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Franzen, Jane Smiley, Russell Banks, Michael Paternite, Lucy Grealy, Thom Jones, Scott Anderson, Sebastian Junger, Ken Kalfus, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Barbara Ehrenreich, Charles Bowden, Joy Williams, David Quammen, William Gass, Joe Conason, David Guterson, Bob Shacochis, Joyce Carol Oates, Lewis Lapham, and many others. Since 2001 he has been a senior editor at Scribner, where he edits both fiction and non-fiction. Among the many writers he has worked there with are Anthony Swofford, Ted Fishman, Kem Nunn, John Dalton, Mariane Pearl, Greg Iles, Bruce Weber, Craig Unger, Steven Johnson, Alexandra Horowitz, Rick Perlstein, Carol Sklenicka, Linda Fairstein, Robert Ferrigno, Daniel Okrent, Doug Stanton, S.G. Gwynne, and Chuck Hogan.

Harrison attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA, 1986), Haverford College (BA, 1982), and Westtown School (1978), a coeducational Quaker boarding school, where his father, Earl Harrison, was headmaster.
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Total Books: 125
Afterburn
Afterburn (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780312978709
ISBN-10: 0312978707
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 25

Afterburn
Afterburn (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780374102050
ISBN-10: 0374102058
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
 5

Afterburn
Afterburn (Audio Cassette)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780671046439
ISBN-10: 0671046438
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 3

Afterburn
Afterburn (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
ISBN-13: 9780965327312
ISBN-10: 0965327310
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
 6

Afterburn A Novel
Afterburn a Novel (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780312426996
ISBN-10: 0312426992
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 2

Agent Sourcebook A Complete Guide to Desktop Internet and Intranet Agents
American Culture in the 1990s
American Culture in the 1990s [Twentieth-Century American Culture] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780748622214
ISBN-10: 0748622217
Genres: History, Nonfiction
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Analysis of Geographical Data
Analysis of Geographical Data (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780435346911
ISBN-10: 0435346911
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An Atlas of the Birds of the Western Palaearctic
An Atlas of the Birds of the Western Palaearctic (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780691083070
ISBN-10: 069108307X
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Bird Nests Eggs and Nestlings
Bird Nests Eggs and Nestlings [Collins Field Guide] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780007130399
ISBN-10: 0007130392
Genres: Science & Math, Outdoors & Nature
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Birds of Australia
Birds of Australia (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780861244188
ISBN-10: 0861244184
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Birds of the World
Birds of the World (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780773727229
ISBN-10: 0773727221
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Bodies Electric
Bodies Electric (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780312979669
ISBN-10: 0312979665
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 3

Bodies Electric
Bodies Electric (Hardcover)Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette
ISBN-13: 9780517584910
ISBN-10: 0517584913
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 4

Break and Enter
Break and Enter (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780312427603
ISBN-10: 0312427603
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 3

Break and Enter
Break and Enter (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780380715268
ISBN-10: 0380715260
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
  • Currently 4.5/5 Stars.
 6

Corruptions
Corruptions (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9782266069328
ISBN-10: 2266069322
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Degas to Picasso Creating Modernism in France
Degas to Picasso Creating Modernism in France (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781910807125
ISBN-10: 1910807125
Genre: Arts & Photography
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Der Anwalt
Der Anwalt (Other)
ISBN-13: 9783453590212
ISBN-10: 345359021X
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Edward Lear Drawings and Watercolours
Edward Lear Drawings and Watercolours (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781854440860
ISBN-10: 1854440861
Genres: Arts & Photography, History
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Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs  Prehistoric Creatures
The Havana Room [Audio CD - Abridged] (Audio CD)