Michael Harvey (author)

Michael Harvey is an American author, journalist, and award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Career

Harvey is the author of five crime novels, The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, The Third Rail, We All Fall Down and The Innocence Game. His sixth, The Governor’s Wife, will be published by Knopf in June 2015. Michael is also an investigative reporter, documentary producer and co-creator, producer and executive producer of A&E’s groundbreaking forensic series, Cold Case Files. Harvey’s investigative journalism and documentary work has won multiple news Emmys and CableACE awards, numerous national and international film festival awards, a CINE Golden Eagle, two Prime-Time Emmy nominations, as well as an Academy Award nomination. Harvey was also selected by the Chicago Tribune as Chicagoan of the Year in Literature for 2011.

Harvey holds a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude with honors, in classical languages from Holy Cross College, a law degree with honors from Duke University and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Harvey is currently an adjunct professor at Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. Harvey was born in Boston and lives in Chicago. He owns an Irish bar in Chicago, The Hidden Shamrock.

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Awards

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