Rob Hart (author)

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Rob Hart
Born1982 (age 43–44)
Staten Island, New York City
Alma materMonsignor Farrell High School
State University of New York at Purchase
OccupationsAuthor, novelist
Websitehttps://robwhart.com/

Rob Hart (born 1982 - New York, USA) is an American author, novelist and former journalist. He is best known for his work The Warehouse and the Ash McKenna series.[1][2][3]

Early life and education

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Hart was born and raised on Staten Island, New York City, New York.[4] He graduated from Monsignor Farrell High School in 2000 and earned a degree in journalism from State University of New York at Purchase, in 2004.[5][6][7]

Career

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Hart worked as a reporter for the Staten Island Advance, covering general assignment and state politics. Thereafter, he was the communications director for New York City Councilman Domenic Recchia.[8][9][10] He was the publisher for Mysterious Press, where he published and edited crime and mystery novels,[11] and currently the class director at LitReactor.[12] He has written short stories for publications like Thuglit,[13] Joyland,[14] and Helix Literary Magazine.[15]

His short stories appeared in sites like LitReactor, Salon.com, The Daily Beast, Criminal Element, The Literary Hub, Birth.Movies.Death, and Electric Literature.[16][17][18][19]

He is the writer of the Ash McKenna novels, a five-book crime thriller series.[20] The first entry, New Yorked, was nominated for an Anthony Award in the Best First Novel category in 2016.[21][22]

In 2017, Hart collaborated with James Patterson on the mystery crime novel Scott Free.[23] In 2018, The Warehouse was sold to Crown at Penguin Random House and the American film director,[24] Ron Howard optioned the film rights for the book.[25][26][27]

Hart wrote Due on Batuu, a short story in the 2020 Star Wars anthology From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, featuring the character Willrow Hood.[28]

In 2022, Kirkus Reviews named The Paradox Hotel one of the best science fiction and fantasy books of the year.[29]

Publications

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Standalone books

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  • The Last Safe Place: A Zombie Novella (2013)
  • Take-Out: And Other Tales of Culinary Crime (2019)
  • The Warehouse (2019)
  • Blood Oath (2022)
  • The Paradox Hotel (2022)
  • Assassins Anonymous (2024)

Ash McKenna series

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  • New Yorked (2015)
  • Bad Beat (2016)
  • City of Rose (2016)
  • South Village (2016)
  • The Woman from Prague (2017)
  • Potter's Field (2018)

References

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