Michael Harrison | |
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Born | Milton, Kent, England | 25 April 1907
Died | 13 September 1991 Hove, Sussex, England | (aged 84)
Pen name | Quentin Downes |
Occupation | writer |
Genre | Detective fiction, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction |
Michael Harrison (25 April 1907 – 13 September 1991 [1]) was the pen name of the English detective fiction and fantasy writer Maurice Desmond Rohan. [2] [3]
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]
Harrison published seventeen novels between 1934 and 1954, when he turned to writing detective fiction. He wrote 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), [4] was named Duke of Sant Estrella by the Kingdom of Redonda (1951), and was named Irregular Shilling by The Baker Street Irregulars of New York (1964). [4] He was a member of the Society of Authors, Crime Writers Association, Baker Street Irregulars of New York, and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.
Michael Harrison | |
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Born | Milton, Kent, England | 25 April 1907
Died | 13 September 1991 Hove, Sussex, England | (aged 84)
Pen name | Quentin Downes |
Occupation | writer |
Genre | Detective fiction, Fantasy fiction, Science fiction |
Michael Harrison (25 April 1907 – 13 September 1991 [1]) was the pen name of the English detective fiction and fantasy writer Maurice Desmond Rohan. [2] [3]
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]
Harrison published seventeen novels between 1934 and 1954, when he turned to writing detective fiction. He wrote 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), [4] was named Duke of Sant Estrella by the Kingdom of Redonda (1951), and was named Irregular Shilling by The Baker Street Irregulars of New York (1964). [4] He was a member of the Society of Authors, Crime Writers Association, Baker Street Irregulars of New York, and the Sherlock Holmes Society of London.