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Harrison Solow Pushcart Prize-winning Writer, Author, Essayist & Writer for the Professions.

Harrison Solow

Biography

Harrison Solow’s writing awards include the Pushcart Prize for Literature (2008). She is published by Simon & Schuster, The University of California Press, Harper Collins, Cinnamon Press, AGNI, The Pushcart Press and several others in the USA, Wales, Canada and England.

In addition to her own works, she has written for myriad cultural, educational, political and corporate organisations. Her professional clients include Paramount Pictures, NASA, Skybox, Profiles in History, Arts & Letters Daily, Corporate Communications Ltd, The Smithsonian Institution, The Advisory Council on the Status of Women, Weissman & Associates, The Institute for Research on Public Policy, Simon& Schuster, Libertas Publishing, Weller Grossman, Marcus-Plotkin, The Canadian International Development Agency and many more.

Highlights:
*Writer (and ghost writer) of fiction and non-fiction books, creative and promotional copy, treatments and innumerable speeches for entertainment, political, and corporate celebrities, companies and charities.
*Pushcart Prize awarded for an excerpt of forthcoming book, Bendithion, due in 2011.
*Contracted with a British publisher for fourth book.
*Notable public and university lecturer (Harvard, UC Berkeley, Cambridge, etc).
*Frequent guest on network & cable television and radio. Entertainment Tonight, BBC, A&E Biography, Booknews, The Sci Fi Channel, etc. Featured in/by Variety, the LA Times, BBC and innumerable radio stations and newspapers.
*Author (under pseudonym) of one of the two best-selling UC Press publications ever: Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation. Entertainment Weekly (foreword by Sir Arthur C.Clarke): “Reads like a great final episode [of Star Trek]”, Sir Arthur C. Clarke “Extraordinary! Should sell millions...”
*Writer-in-Residence: University of Wales in 2008 and Trinity College in 2007,
*University Professor: Creative Writing, Professional Writing, Literature, and Cultural Studies at American and British universities.
*Represented by Russell Galen (The Scovil, Galen, Ghosh Literary Agency), New York.
*Member of ALSC, NAWE, AWWE, NCIS, Women's Faculty Club, UC Berkeley, The Welsh (Literary) Academy

Specialties

Prose: Writing it. Reading it. Exceptional creative and strategic thinking/writing/speaking for projects in or relating to literature, television, film and the industries that support them. Considerable "inside" experience in several worlds. Extensive, unusually diverse experience in mainstream entertainment, publishing, literary trade and academics. Excellent translator of one form of English and cultural sub-text from one world to the other. Expertise in science fiction, literary fiction and nonfiction.

Upcoming Works

  • Two books:

    Bendithion (The Book - as opposed to the Essay which was published in AGNI and The Pushcart Anthology)

    Felicity and Barbara Pym, a literary exploration of Barbara Pym's work.

Favorite Authors

  • Matthew Arnold, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas More, George Eliot, Alan Lightman, Jane Austen, Adam Gopnik, Anita Brookner, Tobias Wolff, Cardinal Newman, Harlan Ellison, Emily Dickenson, AS Byatt, Geoffrey Chaucer, Chaim Potok, Arthur C. Clarke, Antonia White, Thomas Aquinas, Barbara Pym, Northrop Frye, Dorian Llywelyn, Emily Post, George Eliot, Hildegard of Bingen, FR Leavis, Doris Lessing, Beverly Cleary, Willa Cather, Maud Hart Lovelace, Isaac Asimov, Thomas A Kempis, Charlotte Bronte, Paul Davies, Virgina Woolf, Rabbi Steinsaltz, William F. Buckley, Margaret Drabble, AA Milne, and much of about 1000 other authors.

Relationship

  • Married to Herbert F. Solow, Motion Picture and Television Studio Head, Producer, Director, Writer/Author. Herb is the former MGM Studio Head & Vice President of Worldwide Motion Picture and Television Production; Vice-President, Paramount Pictures Television; Studio Head & Vice-President, Desilu Studios; Vice-President, Hanna-Barbara Productions; NBC and CBS Executive. Contracted, developed, sold, executive-produced (and/or produced) and presided over seven (7) primetime network film series including the original Star Trek and Mission:Impossible. Member of the Writers' Guild of America, the Directors' Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. He has served on various Academy Award Nominating Committees (Foreign Film, Documentary Feature and Special Effects). Graduate of Dartmouth.

Family

  • Exceptional, luminary husband and two extraordinary sons.

Causes I Support

  • Lupus Foundation of America

    Museum of Tolerance

    Humane Society

     

University Affiliation

  • University of California, Berkeley ( Former Faculty, English Department; also Special Projects Editor of the University of California Press)
    University of Wales (Former Faculty, Literature and Creative Writing; also Writer in Residence) PhD candidate.
    Mills College, Alumna (named Notable Alumna)

Agents

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Publishers

  • Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books,
    University of California Press,
    United States Congress
    Harper Collins, UK
    Driftwood Press,
    Cinnamon Press,
    Pushcart Press,
    AGNI (Boston University),
    Leaf Books,
    University of Wales Press (for upcoming dissertation)
    Several others

Contact Publishers

  • Please go to publishers' websites - as contact numbers and personnel change.

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