His drama output for radio and television includes numerous award-winning plays,[3] among them are I Never Killed My German (which won a Giles Cooper Award in 1979), Hitler in Therapy and A Cook's Tour of Communism.
His radio drama, Breakfast With Stalin, was premiered in 2010 by Westdeutscher Rundfunk Koeln in Germany, where 16 of Harrison's plays have been broadcast in translation.
[citation needed] In 2009, a new stage play, Scenes From a Misunderstanding, a comedy about the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, was premiered at the Jewish Theatre Festival in Manhattan, and subsequently re-mounted at the Byrdcliffe Theater in Woodstock, New York, along with Bad Boy, a companion piece written for the New York cast.
[citation needed] From 2005 to 11 he contributed a monthly essay on linguistic trends in The Vocabula Review, and since November 2011, a column on fiction-writing in Roll Magazine Online.
[7] Harrison lived in Woodstock, upstate New York for 28 years, and latterly in St. Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, with his wife, the artist Claire Lambe.
Until January 2025 when he retired, he was a Professor of English at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.