Kathryn Harrison

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Kathryn Harrison (born 1961 in Los Angeles) is an American author.

Harrison was raised by her grandparents. The bestselling author famously documented a disturbing triangulation that developed involving her young mother, her father and herself in the memoir The Kiss, which described her father's seduction of the author when she was twenty. She has also written extensively of her grandparents -- her Jewish grandmother is a Sassoon, and her family fled Europe for Shanghai -- as well as documenting her troubled relationship with her mother in the essays collected in Seeking Rapture: Scenes From a Life, and in another memoir, The Mother Knot.

To date, Harrison has published six novels, three memoirs, a travelogue, and a biography. She is also a frequent reviewer for The New York Times Book Review. Her most recent essays have been included in many anthologies, and have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Vogue, O Magazine, Salon, Nerve.Com, More Magazine, and Bookforum,among other publications. She lives in New York with her husband, the novelist and book editor Colin Harrison, and their children.

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Fiction: Thicker Than Water (Random House, 1992), Exposure (Random House, 1993), Poison (Random House, 1995), The Binding Chair, (Random House, 2000) The Seal Wife (Random House, 2002) and Envy (Random House, 2005).

Nonfiction: The Kiss: A Memoir (Random House, 1997), Seeking Rapture: Scenes From a Life (Random House, 2003), The Road to Santiago (National Geographic, 2003), Saint Therese of Lisieux: Penguin Lives Series (Penguin Books, 2003), The Mother Knot: A Memoir (Random House, 2004).