Kathryn Harrison

Kathryn Harrison was born in 1961 in Los Angeles, and was raised by her grandparents. The bestselling author famously documented a disturbing triangulation that developed involving her young mother, her father and herself in the memoir The Kiss, which described her father's seduction of the author when she was twenty. She has also written extensively of her grandparents as well as documenting her troubled relationship with her mother in the essays collected in Seeking Rapture: Scenes From a Life, and in another memoir, The Mother Knot.

To date, Harrison has published six novels, three memoirs, a travelogue, and a biography. She is also a frequent reviewer for THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, and her most recent essays have been included in many anthologies, and have appeared in THE NEW YORKER, HARPER'S MAGAZINE, VOGUE, O MAGAZINE, SALON, NERVE.COM, MORE, BOOKFORUM among other publications. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist and book editor Colin Harrison, and their children.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Fiction: Thicker Than Water (Random House, 1992), Exposure (Random House, 1993), Poison (Random House, 1995), The Binding Chair, (Random House, 2000) The Seal Wife (Random House, 2002) and Envy (Random House, 2005).

Nonfiction: The Kiss: A Memoir (Random House, 1997), Seeking Rapture: Scenes From a Life (Random House, 2003), The Road to Santiago (National Geographic, 2003), Saint Therese of Lisieux: Penguin Lives Series (Penguin Books, 2003), The Mother Knot: A Memoir (Random House, 2004).

Author Website

Kathryn Harrison's website

Interviews with the Author

from the New York Times, by Bill Goldstein (audio): www.nytimes.com/books/00/05/21/specials/harrison.html

from the Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC (audio): [1]

from Bookreporter: [2]

from Bookforum magazine, by Kera Bolonik: [3]