About Craig Harrison
Born 1942. Craig Harrison is a New Zealand playwright, writer, novelist and science fiction writer.
Craig Harrison (born 1942 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is a British-New Zealand author, playwright, scriptwriter, and retired university lecturer for art history and film studies at Massey University. He is best known for his 1982 novel The Quiet Earth. Harrison's output has ranged from science fiction to junior fiction, to comedies parodying academia. All of his books were first published in New Zealand.
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science fiction writer
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Craig Harrison was born in 1942 in Leeds.
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Craig Harrison is a playwright, writer, novelist and science fiction writer.
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Craig Harrison is New Zealand.
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