Talk:Harlan Coben

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please come out with season 2 What happened? I’m going through it without seeing the rest! Please come back out with the series!!! Please

Should the series Safe be added to the table List of Netflix Original Series Under the Deal? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mickraus (talk • contribs) 11:48, 10 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Winner of the Edgar Award, Shamus Award and Anthony Award - the first author to win all three – international bestselling author Harlan Coben’s critically-acclaimed novels have been called “ingenious” (New York Times), “poignant and insightful” (Los Angeles Times), “consistently entertaining” (Houston Chronicle), “superb” (Chicago Tribune) and “must reading” (Philadelphia Inquirer). His most recent novels, THE INNOCENT, JUST ONE LOOK, NO SECOND CHANCE, TELL NO ONE and GONE FOR GOOD have appeared on the top of all the major bestseller lists including the New York Times, London Times, Le Monde, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and USA TODAY -- and many others throughout the world. His books are published in thirty-three languages around the globe and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries.

In his first books, Coben immersed himself in the exploits of sports agent Myron Bolitar. Critics loved the series, saying, “You race to turn pages…both suspenseful and often surprisingly funny” (People). After seven books Coben wanted to try something different. “I came up with a great idea that simply would not work for Myron,” says Coben. The result was the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller TELL NO ONE, which became the most decorated thriller of 2001 – nominated for an Edgar, an Anthony, a Macavity, a Nero, and a Barry; winner of the Audie Award for Best Audio Mystery/Suspense Book (read by Steven Weber); and a #1 hardcover book on the Book Sense 76 list. Coben followed the success of TELL NO ONE with the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers GONE FOR GOOD (2002), NO SECOND CHANCE (2003), and JUST ONE LOOK (2004) and THE INNOCENT (2005). Bookspan, recognizing Coben’s broad international appeal, named NO SECOND CHANCE its first ever International Book of the Month in 2003 – the Main Selection in 15 different countries.

Coben was the first writer in more than a decade to be invited to write fiction for the NEW YORK TIMES op-ed page. His Father’s Day short story, THE KEY TO MY FATHER, appeared June 15, 2003.

Since his critically-acclaimed Myron Bolitar series debuted in 1995, Harlan Coben has won the Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe Award and was nominated for the Edgar two other times. Harlan also won the Anthony Award at the World Mystery Conference, was nominated for another Anthony Award, won the Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America, was nominated for another Shamus, and was twice nominated for the Dilys Award by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association.

In the United Kingdom, his novel ONE FALSE MOVE earned him the prestigious “Fresh Talent Award”, given annually by Great Britain's largest bookstore chain, W. H. Smith, and GONE FOR GOOD won the W. H. SMITH “Thumping Good Read” Award. In France, TELL NO ONE (NE LE DIS A PERSONE) won Le Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle for fiction. His novels have been PEOPLE magazine Page-Turners of the Week and a Publishers Weekly Best of the Year pick.

Harlan was born in Newark, New Jersey. After graduating from Amherst College a political science major, Harlan worked in the travel industry. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, a pediatrician, and their four children.

For a complete list of Harlan Coben novels and their sequence, please click

      This is the official biography, maybe somebody could trim it down a bit? User:Thorton

I definitely agree. Reads too much like a publicity spot than an encyclopaedia entry. Benson85 00:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have made some changes to the existing text today. None of it was factually incorrect, just terrible grammar. In particular I removed several instances of the term 'non-Bolitar' which had been used to describe Coben's stand-alone novels. (Astralbee)

Harlan Coben was his birth name. Rumors that he changed it are false.

Play dead no-longer out of print (in the UK at least) - updated —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.220.193.38 (talk) 14:12, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Im unaware of the Smelly Awards and i cant find any substantial information on New Jersey.

Coben has won an Edgar Award, a Shamus Award a Smelly Award (for writing about New Jersey) and an Anthony Award, and is the first writer to have received all three.

edit: and its out. one could waste a life doing this.

--46.114.37.178 (talk) 10:12, 16 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistencies

"Coben was in his senior year at college when he realized he wanted to write. His first book was accepted when he was twenty-six but after publishing two stand-alone thrillers in his twenties (Play Dead in 1990 and Miracle Cure in 1991)"

Mr. Coben is 57 years-old. Therefore, it is impossible that he was in his twenties during the 1990',s as the sentence suggests, when his first two novels were published.

178.33.39.30 (talk) 11:21, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

RC

Actually, his page (along with other European pages) show 1962 as his birth's year. That way, it is well possible that he was being in (actually, at the end of) his twenties. I have no idea from where did You pull this 57-y-o nonsense. http://www.harlancoben.com/static/faq.htm#q4 86.101.245.69 (talk) 14:50, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Kindly add media adaptations of his work, I hear their is a netflix mini-series based on his book. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.215.194.175 (talk) 22:37, 25 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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please come out with season 2 What happened? I’m going through it without seeing the rest! Please come back out with the series!!! Please 2600:1702:60:4120:444A:BD05:FD63:4FFD (talk) 14:41, 13 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]