Michael Harrison was born in Milton, Kent, England, on 25 April 1907.[4] He attended the University of London and served briefly in the British Military Intelligence during World War II.[4] He married Marie-Yvonne Aubertin.[5]
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.[3] His most successful work, In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes, was published in 1958[1] and was followed by The London of Sherlock Holmes[1] and The World of Sherlock Holmes.[1]
Harrison was awarded the Occident Prize for Weep for Lycidas (1934),[4] was named Duke of Sant Estrella by the Kingdom of Redonda (1951), and was named Irregular Shilling by The Baker Street Irregulars of New York (1964).[4] 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.
