Rob Hart (author)

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Rob Hart
Born1982 (age 41–42)
Staten Island, New York City
Alma mater Monsignor Farrell High School
State University of New York at Purchase
Occupation(s)Author, novelist
Website https://robwhart.com/

Rob Hart (born 1982 - New York, USA) is an American author, novelist and former journalist. He is best known for his work The Warehouse and the Ash McKenna series. [1] [2] [3]

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Early life and education

Hart was born and raised on Staten Island, New York City, New York. [4] He graduated from Monsignor Farrell High School in 2000 and earned a degree in journalism from State University of New York at Purchase, in 2004. [5] [6] [7]

Career

Hart worked as a reporter for the Staten Island Advance , covering general assignment and state politics. Thereafter, he was the communications director for New York City Councilman Domenic Recchia. [8] [9] [10] He was the publisher for Mysterious Press, where he published and edited crime and mystery novels, [11] and currently the class director at LitReactor. [12] He has written short stories for publications like Thuglit, [13] Joyland, [14] and Helix Literary Magazine. [15]

His short stories appeared in sites like LitReactor, Salon.com , The Daily Beast , Criminal Element, The Literary Hub, Birth.Movies.Death, and Electric Literature. [16] [17] [18] [19]

He is the writer of the Ash McKenna novels, a five-book crime thriller series. [20] The first entry, New Yorked, was nominated for an Anthony Award in the Best First Novel category in 2016. [21] [22]

In 2017, Hart collaborated with James Patterson on the mystery crime novel Scott Free. [23] In 2018, The Warehouse was sold to Crown at Penguin Random House and the American film director, [24] Ron Howard optioned the film rights for the book. [25] [26] [27]

Hart wrote Due on Batuu, a short story in the 2020 Star Wars anthology From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, featuring the character Willrow Hood. [28]

In 2022, Kirkus Reviews named The Paradox Hotel one of the best science fiction and fantasy books of the year. [29]

Publications

Standalone books

Ash McKenna series

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