Harrison was born in Leicester and attended grammar school in Rugby and Ramsgate, Kent. He completed National Service in the Royal Signals in Cyprus and Suez. From 1962-1992 he worked for local newspapers in Coventry. He is married with two children and five grandchildren. He took early retirement in 1992 to care for his wife, who sadly died of a brain tumour. He then moved to Spain in 1996 and completed But A Fleeting Shadow which is a work of romantic fiction and returned to the UK in 1998.
