Harlan Coben

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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other Harlan Coben (born January 4, 1962[1]) is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Twelve of his novels have been adapted for film and television.

Coben has won an Edgar Award, a Shamus Award, and an Anthony Award—the first author to receive all three.[2][3] His books have been translated into 46 languages and sold over 90 million copies.[4]

Early life and education

Coben was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and was raised in Livingston,[5] where he graduated from Livingston High School, with his childhood friend, future governor Chris Christie.[6] His brother is the noted businessman Lawrence S. Coben.

He studied political science at Amherst College, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, along with Dan Brown.[7][8] Coben was in his senior year at college when he realized he wanted to write.[9]

Career

After graduating in 1984, Coben worked in the travel industry, in a company owned by his grandfather.[7][9] It was during that time when he wrote his first book, romantic suspense thriller Play Dead, which was accepted for publication when he was 26 and released in 1990.[9] It was followed by Miracle Cure in 1991. He then began writing a series of thrillers featuring a former basketball player turned sports agent, Myron Bolitar, who often finds himself investigating murders involving his clients.

Tell No One, his first stand-alone thriller since the creation of the Myron Bolitar series in 1995, was published in 2001. A French-language film adaptation based on the book was released in 2006.[10] Coben followed Tell No One with nine more stand-alone novels. His novel Hold Tight, published on April 15, 2008, was his first book to debut at number 1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.[11]

In 2003, Coben published a short story about his father, who had died of a heart attack at the age of 59 in 1988.[4][12] Entitled "The Key to My Father," the story was published in The New York Times on Father's Day, June 15, 2003.[13] Besides The New York Times, his essays and columns have appeared in Parade magazine and Bloomberg Views.[14]

Bibliography

Series Year Title
Myron Bolitar 1995 Deal Breaker
1996 Drop Shot
Fade Away
1997 Back Spin
1998 One False Move
1999 The Final Detail
2000 Darkest Fear
2006 Promise Me
2009 Long Lost
2011 Live Wire
2016 Home
2024 Think Twice[15]
Mickey Bolitar
(1st Myron Bolitar spin-off series) 		2011 Shelter
2012 Seconds Away
2014 Found
Wilde 2020 The Boy from the Woods
2022 The Match
Windsor Horne Lockwood III
(2nd Myron Bolitar spin-off series) 		2021 Win
Standalone novels 1990 Play Dead
1991 Miracle Cure
2001 Tell No One
2002 Gone for Good
2003 No Second Chance
2004 Just One Look
2005 The Innocent
2007 The Woods
2008 Hold Tight
2010 Caught
2012 Stay Close
2013 Six Years
2014 Missing You
2015 The Stranger
2016 The Magical Fantastical Fridge
Fool Me Once
2017 Don't Let Go
2019 Run Away
2023 I Will Find You
2025 Nobody's Fool

Awards

Coben won the 1996 Anthony Award in the category "Best Paperback Original", for Deal Breaker, the first volume of the Myron Bolitar series; it was also nominated for an Edgar Award in the same category.[16][17] Fade Away won the 1997 Shamus Award and the Edgar Award for "Best Paperback Original",[17][18] was nominated for the Anthony Award and the Barry Award in the same category,[16][19] and was nominated for a Dilys Award.[20] The following Myron Bolitar novel, Back Spin, won the 1998 Barry Award and was nominated for the Dilys Award and the Shamus Award.[18][19][20] In 2002, Tell No One was nominated for the Anthony Award, the Macavity Award, the Edgar Award and the Barry Award.[16][19][21][22] In 2010, Live Wire won the crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing, worth €125,000.[23]

In 2023, the Japanese edition of Win, translated by Toshiki Taguchi, was nominated for the Mystery Writers of Japan Award for Mystery Fiction in Translation.[24][25]

Adaptations

Coben's first book to be adapted for the screen was Tell No One. Director Guillaume Canet made a French-language film, based on the book, titled Ne le dis à personne, in 2006.[10]

Coben's 2003 book No Second Chance became the basis for the 2015 French miniseries of the same name. Two years later the same happened to Just One Look.

Coben is the creator of the British crime drama television show The Five, which first aired in April 2016 on the Sky 1 channel in the United Kingdom.[26][27][28] Coben also created the French-British crime drama television show Safe, which premiered on Netflix in 190 countries on May 10, 2018.[29][30]

Films and TV series

TV contracts

In 2022, Amazon Studios announced plans to produce a series based on the first Mickey Bolitar novel, Shelter.[31] Jaden Michael stars as Mickey, alongside Constance Zimmer, Adrian Greensmith, Abby Corrigan, and Sage Linder.[32][33][34] The series, Harlan Coben's Shelter, was released on August 18, 2023.[35]

In August 2018, Coben signed a multi-million-dollar, 5-year contract with Netflix. Under the deal, 14 of his novels would be developed into series or films, with him serving as executive producer on all of them.[36] The first one was The Stranger which premiered in January 2020.[37] In October 2022, it was announced that Netflix had extended the deal for another 4 years, with the Myron Bolitar series now also available for adaptation.[38] On February 20, 2023, Fool Me Once was announced as an upcoming adaptation in production for Netflix.[39]

List of Netflix Original Series Under the Deal
No. Title (English & LOTE) Country of origin Language Episodes Release date Ref
1 Safe (English: Safe)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United Kingdom English 8 May 10, 2018
2 The Stranger (English: The Stranger)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United Kingdom English 8 January 30, 2020
3 The Woods (Polish: W głębi lasu)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Poland Polish 6 June 12, 2020
4 The Innocent (Spanish: El inocente)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Spain Spanish 8 April 30, 2021 [40]
5 Gone for Good (French: Disparu à jamais)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". France French 5 August 13, 2021
6 Stay Close (English: Stay Close)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United Kingdom English 8 December 31, 2021 [41]
7 Hold Tight (Polish: Zachowaj spokój)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Poland Polish 6 April 22, 2022 [42]
8 Fool Me Once (English: Fool Me Once)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United Kingdom English 8 January 1, 2024 [43]
9 Missing You (English: Missing You)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United Kingdom English 5 January 1, 2025 [44]
10 Just One Look (Polish: Tylko jedno spojrzenie)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Poland Polish 6 March 5, 2025
11 Caught (Spanish: Atrapados)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Argentina Spanish 6 March 26, 2025 [45]
12 I Will Find You (English: I Will Find You)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United States English 8 [46]
13 Run Away (English: Run Away)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". United Kingdom English [44]

Personal life

Coben lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey, with his wife Anne Armstrong-Coben, a pediatrician, and their four children.[14][47]

References

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