Colin Harrison

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

Harrison is the author of six novels, Break and Enter (1990), Bodies Electric (1993), Manhattan Nocturne (1996), Afterburn (2000), The Havana Room (2004) and The Finder (2008). Four were selected as Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review. All are atmospheric novels of violence and suspense that explore the underside of city life, most particularly in New York.^[1]

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. 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 since then has been an editor at Scribner.

At Scribner, Harrison edits both fiction and non-fiction. Among the writers he has worked with are Anthony Swofford, Ted Fishman, Craig Unger, Robert Ferrigno, and Chuck Hogan.^{[citation needed]}

Harrison attended the University of Iowa Writers Workshop (MFA, 1986) and Haverford College (BA, 1982).^{[citation needed]}

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