Biography
Harlan Coben is an American author of detective and mystical thrillers. The writer is the first owner of three prestigious literary awards: Awards Shamus, Edgar Po and Anthony Bush.Childhood and youth
The writer was born in early 1962 in the state of New Jersey in the Jewish family. Relatives had and have important importance for the writer - the novel "Past will not let go" Coben begins with gratitude to numerous units and tetushkam.
In High School of the city of Livingston, the guy was friends with the future governor of the state of Chris Christi, and in College of Amherst, in which Harlan mastered the profession of the political scientist, - with the future novelist Dan Brown.
After College, Coben worked in a travel company belonging to his grandfather, and accompanied the groups of sightseers to Europe. The impressions of the trip became the debut of Harlan in the epistolalar genre.
Personal life
Like the Russian director Svetlana Druzhinina and her husband - Operator Anatoly Mukasey, with the future wife Koben met on the student sports field. Harlan headed the male college team on basketball, and the girl Anna Armstrong likeded - female. The spouse gave the writer of five children, whose name is Charlotte, Benjamin, Alexander, Gabrielle and Eve.The personal and professional life of the family members of the writer gives Koben the foundation for creating a plausible background of the adventures of the heroes of books. Anna Armstrong-Coben works by a pediatrician, and physician characters Harlan often writes off his wife. Charlotte's daughter writes poetic fragments for the detectives of the Father's detectives, as Coben mentions, in particular, at the beginning of the novel "just one look."
Harlan was friends with the author of the "endless joke" - writer David Foster Wallace, whose biography tragically broke off in 2008. Although Coben has an apartment in New York, with his wife now lives in his native state, the action of most of its works is unfolding there. An important place in the life of the family is the dog breed of Shi-Tzu, the photo of which often appear in the "instagram" of the writer.
Books
In most works of Koben, crimes are investigated - killing and disappearance of people committed in the past. The first Roman Harlana Play Dead was published when the author was 28 years old. David Baskins Character disappears during a honeymoon in the Large Barrier Reef area.
The most famous series of Romanov Koben about the Basketball Agent Majron Bolitar. As part of the cycle, such works as the "transaction violator", "out of the game", "one wrong step", "the main suspect", "composed by one chain", are published.
Among the novels of Koben, not included in the series, the greatest popularity of the "disappearance", "the second chance will not", "just one look", "innocent", "dead grip", "the past will not retreat", "once Salgav." On thinking the plot, the author, as a rule, spends 3 months.
In 2006, the novel of Koben "Do not tell anyone" was shielded in France. The hero of the work receives emails from the late wife. The film received 4 Prizes "Cesar".
Harlan Coben now
In 2019, the bibliography of Koben was replenished with Run Away thriller ("Relube"), talking about an attempt to rescue the father dependent on the daughter's drugs. The book took 2nd place in the list of bestsellers according to New York Times. It was followed by another novel by the author The Boy from the Woods ("Boy from the Forest").On the official website of the writer it was reported that the adaptation of the work "Stranger" is removed.
Russian-speaking readers pleased the translation of the book Kharlan "Do not let go", released in 2019 by the publishing house "ABC". Detective Nak Dumas is trying to solve the mysterious killing of his twin brother and his girls, which happened 15 years ago.
Bibliography
- 1995 - "Violation of the Transaction"
- 1996 - "Out of the game"
- 1998 - "One wrong step"
- 1999 - "The main suspect"
- 2001 - "Don't tell anyone"
- 2002 - "Disappearance"
- 2003 - "The second chance will not be"
- 2004 - "just one pile"
- 2005 - "Innogenous"
- 2008 - "Dead grip"
- 2011 - "composed by one chain"
- 2012 - "Past will not retreat"
- 2015 - "Stranger"
- 2016 - "Once of Litgav"
- 2017 - "Do not let go"
- 2019 - "Relube"