Michael Harvey is an American author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.

Career

Harvey is the author of seven crime novels, ''The Chicago Way'', ''The Fifth Floor'', ''The Third Rail'', ''We All Fall Down'', ''The Innocence Game'', ''The Governor's Wife'', and ''Brighton''. Harvey is also an investigative reporter, documentary producer and co-creator, producer and executive producer of A&E's groundbreaking forensic series, ''Cold Case Files''. Harvey's investigative journalism and documentary work has won multiple news Emmys and CableACE awards, numerous national and international film festival awards, a CINE Golden Eagle, two Prime-Time Emmy nominations, as well as an Academy Award nomination. Harvey was also selected by the ''

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'' as Chicagoan of the Year in Literature for 2011. Harvey holds a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude with honors, in classical languages from the

College of the Holy Cross The College of the Holy Cross is a private Jesuit liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded by educators Benedict Joseph Fenwick and Thomas F. Mulledy in 1843 under the auspices of the Society of Jesus. ...

, a law degree with honors from

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

and a master's degree in journalism from

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

. Harvey is currently an adjunct professor at Northwestern's

Medill School of Journalism The Medill School of Journalism (branded as Northwestern Medill; formally the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications) is the journalism school of Northwestern University. It offers both undergraduate and graduat ...

. Harvey was born in

Boston Boston is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. The city serves as the cultural and Financial centre, financial center of New England, a region of the Northeas ...

, graduated from Boston LatinMichael Harvey Author Biography
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Books

P.I Michael Kelly series: *''The Governor’s Wife'', Knopf, 2015. *''We All Fall Down'', Knopf, 2011. *''The Third Rail'', Knopf, 2010. *''The Fifth Floor'', Knopf, 2008. *''The Chicago Way'', Knopf, 2007. stand-alone: *''Pulse'', Ecco, 2018. *''Brighton'', Ecco, 2016. *''The Innocence Game'', Knopf, 2013.

Awards

*Chicago Tribune 2011 Person of the Year – Literature. *Two Primetime Emmy Nominations for Best Original Non-Fiction Series *Academy Award Nomination – Best Short Feature Documentary *Columbus International Film Festival Chris Award *CINE – Golden Eagle Award *Houston World Film Festival – Gold Medal *New York Festivals – Gold Medal *National CableACE Award – Best News Special *New York Festivals – World Medal, International Division *National CableACE Award – Best News Special *Regional Emmy Award – Best Feature Series *Columbus International Film Festival Bronze Plaque *New York Festivals Gold Medal *Five Regional Emmy Awards *National Easter Seal Award, Best Feature

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Harvey, Michael Living people College of the Holy Cross alumni American crime fiction writers Duke University School of Law alumni Northwestern University faculty Medill School of Journalism alumni American documentary filmmakers Writers from Chicago Film producers from Illinois American investigative journalists American male novelists Boston Latin School alumni Novelists from Illinois American male non-fiction writers Year of birth missing (living people)