Career
A New York Times best selling novelist, short-story author, essayist and newspaper reporter and columnist, Coburn is the author of 13 novels which have been translated into over 14 languages throughout the world. They live in Andover, Massachusetts. Coburn"s early journalism career included publishing his own newspapers The Journal of Greater Lawrence and Greater Lawrence Today, having begun his career at the Lawrence Eagle Tribune, North Andover, Massachusetts.
Many of his articles have been archived at the Lawrence Public Library.
Currently, Coburn is working on a novella titled Spouses & Other Crimes, which is a collection of 11 short stories first published in periodicals, literary magazines and online. lieutenant is set to be released in October, 2014.
Three of his novels have been adapted into films. was adapted into the French film "Un dimanche de flic" by director Michel Vianey. was adapted into the French film, "Toutes peines confondues" (1992). The film was distributed worldwide including Germany under the title Sweetheart, and in Italy, under the title Marbel.
Although first released over two decades ago, Sweetheart remains a popular cult film to this day.
