Craig Harrison (writer)

Craig Harrison (born 1942 in Leeds, Yorkshire) is a British-New Zealand author, playwright, scriptwriter, and retired university lecturer for art history and film studies at Massey University, who is probably best known for his 1982 novel The Quiet Earth. Harrison's output has ranged widely, from science fiction to junior fiction, to comedies parodying academia. All of his books were published first in his adopted home of New Zealand.