Michael Harrison (25 April 1907 – 13 September 1991[1]) was the pen name of the English detective fiction and fantasy writer Maurice Desmond Rohan.
[2][3] Michael Harrison was born in Milton, Kent, England, on 25 April 1907.
[4] He attended the University of London and served briefly in the British Military Intelligence during World War II.
[5] Harrison published seventeen novels between 1934 and 1954, when he turned to writing detective fiction.
[1] Harrison was awarded the Occident Prize for Weep for Lycidas (1934),[4] was named Duke of Sant Estrella by the Kingdom of Redonda (1951), and was named Irregular Shilling by The Baker Street Irregulars of New York (1964).