Background
Alan Harrington was born on January 16, 1919 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States.
Alan Harrington was born on January 16, 1919 in Newton, Massachusetts, United States.
Alan graduated from Harvard College in 1939.
After serving in the United States Army Air Force’s Weather Service, Harrington became a reporter for Transradio Press in New York. During the period from 1950 to 1954 he worked for the Information Office of the Republic of Indonesia in New York.
Alan Harrington worked as a public relations man at Standard-Vacuum Oil Company and International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT).
Harrington contributed articles to Esquire, New Republic, Harper’s and others, and also taught writing at the University of Arizona.
His major works include several case histories, dealing with psychology.
His The Revelations of Dr Modesto (1955) was a novel of ideas about a system called Centralism which brings too much luck, and The Immortalist (1969), an unfictionalized Utopia which describes a world free of death. His novel, Paradise 1 (1977), set in the twenty-first century, also tells of potential Immortality and of a continuing struggle to wrest humanity free of its contract with death.
Alan's marriage to Virginia Carrington Hannah in 1941 and marriage to Luba Petrova in 1958 ended in divorce. In 1968, he married Peggy Young. The couple separated in 1985.
Alan Harrington had three children – Stephen, John and Susan.