Craig Harrison (writer)
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| Born | 1942 (age 81–82) |
| Occupation(s) | Author, playwright, lecturer |
Craig Harrison (born 1942 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is a British-New Zealand author, playwright,[1] scriptwriter, and retired university lecturer for art history and film studies at Massey University, who is probably best known for his 1982 novel The Quiet Earth. Harrison's output has ranged widely, from science fiction to junior fiction, to comedies parodying academia. All of his books were published first in his adopted home of New Zealand.
Bibliography
[edit]Novels
[edit]- How To Be A Pom (1975)
- Broken October: New Zealand, 1985 (1976 A.H. and A.W. Reed Ltd) – Novelisation of the play 'Tomorrow Will Be A Lovely Day' ISBN 0589009664
- The Quiet Earth (1981 - Coronet Books) ISBN 0340265078
- Ground Level (1981) – Novelization of earlier play 'Ground Level'
- Days of Starlight (1988), ISBN 0340422033
- Grievous Bodily (1991)
- The Dumpster Saga (2007)
Plays
[edit]- Tomorrow Will Be a Lovely Day (1974)
- Ground Level (1981)
- The Whites of Their Eyes (1975)
- Perfect Strangers (1976)
- Hearts of Gold (1983)
- White Lies (1994)
References
[edit]- ^ Chambers, Colin (14 May 2006). Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre. A&C Black. pp. 544–545. ISBN 978-1-84714-001-2.
External links
[edit]- Craig Harrison at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Craig Harrison at IMDb
- Profile Archived 5 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine at the New Zealand Book Council
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- English dramatists and playwrights
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- 20th-century New Zealand dramatists and playwrights
- Writers from Leeds
- English male dramatists and playwrights
- English male novelists
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