Harlan Coben

Template:Infobox writer Harlan Coben (born January 4, 1962<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) 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.<ref name="khomami">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His books have been translated into 46 languages and sold over 90 million copies.<ref name="Podcast Episode">Template:Cite podcast</ref>

Early life and education

Coben was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and was raised in Livingston,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> where he graduated from Livingston High School, with his childhood friend, future governor Chris Christie.<ref name="cobenoped">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Coben was in his senior year at college when he realized he wanted to write.<ref name=":4"/>

Career

After graduating in 1984, Coben worked in the travel industry, in a company owned by his grandfather.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":4" /> 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.<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2003, Coben published a short story about his father, who had died of a heart attack at the age of 59 in 1988.<ref name="Podcast Episode"/><ref>Template:Cite tweet</ref> Entitled "The Key to My Father," the story was published in The New York Times on Father's Day, June 15, 2003.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Besides The New York Times, his essays and columns have appeared in Parade magazine and Bloomberg Views.<ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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
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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.<ref name="anthony">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="edgar1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Fade Away won the 1997 Shamus Award and the Edgar Award for "Best Paperback Original",<ref name="edgar1"/><ref name="shamus">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> was nominated for the Anthony Award and the Barry Award in the same category,<ref name="anthony"/><ref name="barry">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and was nominated for a Dilys Award.<ref name="dilys">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The following Myron Bolitar novel, Back Spin, won the 1998 Barry Award and was nominated for the Dilys Award and the Shamus Award.<ref name="shamus"/><ref name="barry"/><ref name="dilys"/> In 2002, Tell No One was nominated for the Anthony Award, the Macavity Award, the Edgar Award and the Barry Award.<ref name="anthony"/><ref name="barry"/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="edgar2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2010, Live Wire won the crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing, worth €125,000.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name=":2" />

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Coben also created the French-British crime drama television show Safe, which premiered on Netflix in 190 countries on May 10, 2018.<ref name="cast">Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Films and TV series

TV contracts

In 2022, Amazon Studios announced plans to produce a series based on the first Mickey Bolitar novel, Shelter.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Jaden Michael stars as Mickey, alongside Constance Zimmer, Adrian Greensmith, Abby Corrigan, and Sage Linder.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The series, Harlan Coben's Shelter, was released on August 18, 2023.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The first one was The Stranger which premiered in January 2020.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> On February 20, 2023, Fool Me Once was announced as an upcoming adaptation in production for Netflix.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

List of Netflix Original Series Under the Deal

No.	Title (English & LOTE)		Country of origin	Language	Episodes	Release date	Template:Abbr
1	Safe	Template:Small	United Kingdom	English	8	May 10, 2018
2	The Stranger	Template:Small	United Kingdom	English	8	January 30, 2020
3	The Woods	Template:Small	Poland	Polish	6	June 12, 2020
4	The Innocent	Template:Small	Spain	Spanish	8	April 30, 2021	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
5	Gone for Good	Template:Small	France	French	5	August 13, 2021
6	Stay Close	Template:Small	United Kingdom	English	8	December 31, 2021	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
7	Hold Tight	Template:Small	Poland	Polish	6	April 22, 2022	<ref>Template:Cite video</ref>
8	Fool Me Once	Template:Small	United Kingdom	English	8	January 1, 2024	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
9	Missing You	Template:Small	United Kingdom	English	5	January 1, 2025	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
10	Just One Look	Template:Small	Poland	Polish	6	March 5, 2025
11	Caught	Template:Small	Argentina	Spanish	6	March 26, 2025	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
12	I Will Find You	Template:Small	United States	English	8		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
13	Run Away	Template:Small	United Kingdom	English			<ref name=":5" />

Personal life

Coben lives in Ridgewood, New Jersey, with his wife Anne Armstrong-Coben, a pediatrician, and their four children.<ref name=":3" /><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

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