Author Biography | Interview | Books by this Author | Readalikes
Harley Jane Kozak was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and grew up in North Dakota and Nebraska, where her mother taught music at the University in Lincoln. She had acted in more than 30 plays when she went to New York City to attend NYU's School of the Arts (now Tisch School of the Arts). After completing the program, she was cast in the feature film The House on Sorority Row. She later had principle roles in three soap operasTexas, Guiding Light and Santa Barbaraand had made her way to Los Angeles, where she went on to star in feature films and prime time television programs. Ten years later she began to write novels.
Her works include Dating Dead Men (2004), Dating Is Murder: A Novel (2005), A Date You Can't Refuse (2009), Keeper of the Moon (2013).
Kozak currently lives with her family in Southern California, where she's working on an international thriller. Meanwhile, she's added teaching, blogging and public speaking to her resumi.
About This Biography
This biography was last updated on 09/05/2015. We try to keep BookBrowse's biographies both up to date and accurate, but with over 2500 lives to keep track of it's inevitable that some won't be as current or as complete as we would like. So, please help us - if the information about a particular author is out of date, inaccurate or simply very short, and you know of a more complete source, please let us know. Authors and those connected with authors:
If you wish to make changes to your bio, send your complete biography as you would like it displayed so that we can replace the old with the new.
An Interview with Harley Jane Koxak
In what ways is Wollie like you?
Wollie's a greeting card designer, and I've been a perpetual doodler my
whole life, an amateur, completely uneducated graphic artist . . . For the last
20 years, I've made my own Christmas cards, shlepped them to the printer, sent
out 500 to my nearest and dearest--a mildly idiosyncratic obsession that Wollie
would understand. Neither Wollie nor I has much physical courage (although I'm
in better shape and run more than she does, and I am, I might add, much less
well-endowed. Also shorter and less blonde.) And we're both indoor people. Who
would be happier in a world where we never had to drive a car.
After a successful acting career, what drew you to writing?
In my teens and twenties I was an avid letter-writer and
diary-keeper, and then, upon graduating from NYU's graduate acting program, had
an almost overpowering urge to have a baby and write a play. I postponed the
baby, wrote the play, workshopped it a bit, put it away, tried to write a
screenplay, a novel, a musical, put them away, and then, 15 years later, took a
short story class from a genius who teaches at Santa Monica College, Jim Krusoe.
I lived for his ...
Tim Cockey grew up in and around Baltimore, Maryland. Educated in Ohio, London and Copenhagen, he later returned to Baltimore where he worked with a local newspaper in advertising sales and design while moonlighting under a ... (more)
If you enjoyed:
Dating Dead Men
Try:
Hearse of a Different Color
by Tim Cockey
Janet Evanovich (born Janet Schneider, 1943, in South River, New Jersey) began her career writing short contemporary romance novels under the pen name Steffie Hall, but became a #1 New York Times bestselling author writing a ... (more)
If you enjoyed:
Dating Dead Men
Try:
Four To Score
by Janet Evanovich
We recommend 3 similar authors
The Tea Planter's Wife
by Dinah Jefferies
An utterly engrossing, compulsive page-turner set in 1920s Ceylon.
An intoxicatingly vivid portrait of colonial Kenya and its privileged inhabitants.
About the book
Blood at the Root
"A gripping, timely, and important examination of American racism."
- PW Starred Review
Visitors can view some of BookBrowse for free. Full access is for members only.
Your guide toexceptional books
BookBrowse seeks out and recommends books that we believe to be best in class. Books that will whisk you to faraway places and times, that will expand your mind and challenge you -- the kinds of books you just can't wait to tell your friends about.
Subscribe to receive some of our best reviews, "beyond the book" articles, book club info & giveaways by email.
