Michael Harrison (writer)
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| Born | 25 April 1907 Fantasy fiction, Science fiction |
Michael Harrison (25 April 1907 – 13 September 1991
Biography
Michael Harrison was born in Milton, Kent, England, on 25 April 1907.[4] He attended the University of London and served briefly in the British Military Intelligence during World War II.[4] He married Marie-Yvonne Aubertin.[5]
Career
Harrison published seventeen novels between 1934 and 1954, when he turned to writing
pastiches of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and was a noted Sherlock Holmes scholar.[3] His most successful work, In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes, was published in 1958[1] and was followed by The London of Sherlock Holmes[1] and The World of Sherlock Holmes.[1]
Harrison was awarded the Occident Prize for Weep for Lycidas (1934),Crime Writers Association, Baker Street Irregulars of New York, and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.
References
- ^ ISBN 9781770705920.
- ISBN 9781135955786.
- ^ ISBN 0-312-15897-1.
- ^ a b c d "Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin". Retrieved 6 May 2008.
- ^ "The Peerage". Retrieved 31 January 2007.
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