Background
Michael Harrison was born in Milton, Kent, England, on 25 April 1907.
Michael Harrison was born in Milton, Kent, England, on 25 April 1907.
He attended the University of London and served briefly in the British Military Intelligence during World World War World War II
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. His most successful work, In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes, was published in 1958.
Harrison died in September 1991 at the age of 84.
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.