American · b. 1962
Harlan Coben is an American author of mystery and suspense novels. Born in Newark, New Jersey, he grew up in Livingston and graduated from Amherst College, where he studied political science. He began with the Myron Bolitar series, about a sports agent who solves crimes, starting with Deal Breaker in 1995. His 2001 stand-alone novel Tell No One became an international bestseller and won the Edgar, Shamus and Anthony awards. He has since written many stand-alone thrillers, usually set in American suburbs where family secrets and old crimes surface, along with the Mickey Bolitar young adult series. His books have sold tens of millions of copies in dozens of languages. Netflix has adapted several of them as series, including Safe, The Stranger and Fool Me Once. Coben's short chapters, quick dialogue and last-page twists made him one of the best-known writers of contemporary crime fiction.