George Harrar is a fiction writer whose short stories have appeared in a dozen literary magazines, including the 1999 edition of BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES for "The 5:22". His novels include THE WONDER KID (Houghton Mifflin, 2006); THE SPINNING MAN, a philosophical mystery (Putnam, 2003); NOT AS CRAZY AS I SEEM (Houghton Mifflin, 2003); THE TROUBLE WITH JEREMY CHANCE (Milkweed Editions, 2003); PARENTS WANTED (Milkweed Editions, 2001); and FIRST TIGER (The Permanent Press, 1999). He is represented by Esmond Harmsworth of Zachary Shuster Harmsworth, Boston.
Harrar grew up in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania and graduated from New York