Michael Harvey (author)

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

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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 Chicago Tribune 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, a law degree with honors from Duke University and a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University. Harvey is currently an adjunct professor at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism. Harvey was born in Boston, graduated from Boston Latin [1] and lives in Chicago. He owns an Irish bar in Chicago, The Hidden Shamrock.

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  1. Michael Harvey Author Biography