Author:W. A. Harbinson

Reconciliation notes

 * Internal consistency pass done. Ahasuerus 11:57, 1 Sep 2006 (CDT)
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 * Reconciled with Ahasuerus 11:57, 1 Sep 2006 (CDT)
 * Reconciled with Ahasuerus 11:57, 1 Sep 2006 (CDT)

Autobiography posted by the Author
W.A.Harbinson was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1941. He went to live in England at 17, then emigrated to Australia at 19, serving for six years in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF). Returning to England, he lived in London for twenty years, but now divides his time between West Cork, Ireland, and Paris, France.

Harbinson is the author of over fifty novels, including his bestselling science fiction epics, GENESIS (1980) and REVELATION (1982). The original GENESIS was then used as the basis for his 5-volume 'Projekt Saucer' series, which includes, in sequence, INCEPTION, PHOENIX (nominated for the Arthur C.Clarke Award, 1995), GENESIS, MILLENNIUM, and RESURRECTION, all published in the UK by New English Library. Though the series remained in print for most of the 1990s, only volumes 1 (INCEPTION) and 3 (GENESIS) were published in the US.

With the completion of RESURRECTION (1999), the final volume in the 'Projekt Saucer' series, Harbinson stopped writing science fiction.

Harbinson's decade of UFO research for the Projekt Saucer series was used as the basis for his non-fiction book, PROJEKT UFO: THE CASE FOR MAN-MADE FLYING SAUCERS, published in hardback and paperback by Boxtree, London, in 1996.

He launched Bloomsbury Books's highly successful series of '22 Books' SAS novels, writing twelve books for the series under the pen-name of Shaun Clarke; he then went on to a separate, successful career as an SAS thriller writer, producing novels for Hodder Headline and Simon & Schuster, all published both as hardbacks and in paperback, the last in 2001.

Harbinson's early novel, THE RUNNING MAN (1967) was turned into an Australian feature film entitled THE CITY'S EDGE. His work for radio includes the science fiction play, ASTRONAUT, broadcast by the BBC in 1975, and a short story, FATHER AND SON, broadcast by BBC Ulster in 1999.

Harbinson is also the author of various biographical works, including a US Number 1, million-selling biography of ELVIS PRESLEY, plus biographies of CHARLES BRONSON, GEORGE C.SCOTT and EVITA PERON. The latter reached the Number 6 position in 'The Times's 'Top Ten Movie and TV Tie-ins' listings of October 1996. It was also published with great success by St.Martin's Press, New York.

In 2005, Harbinson published two of his books through the Amazon POD (Print-on-Demand) company, BookSurge: ALL AT SEA ON THE GHOST SHIP, a travel memoir of particular interest to fellow authors and aspiring writers, and REVELATION, a reprint of his epic, 1982, Israeli-Palestinian bestseller. His latest POD book, published through BookSurge in 2006, is THE WRITING GAME: RECOLLECTIONS OF AN OCCASIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR.

For the past eight years, Harbinson has been the regular film columnist for the Paris-based monthly magazine, 'The Irish Eyes'. He has been working on the two volumes of a novel, LAGAN RIVER, BLACK MOUNTAIN for the past seven years.