Rob Hart (author)

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]

Rob Hart
Born	1982 (age 42–43) Staten Island, New York City
Alma mater	Monsignor Farrell High School State University of New York at Purchase
Occupation(s)	Author, novelist
Website	https://robwhart.com/

Early life and education

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

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

Standalone books

• 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

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