Harlan Coben

She was a very modern day feminist.

She marched with Gloria Steinem.

We had a bumper sticker when I was a kid on my car.

Think about this bumper sticker for a moment.

And the ladies out there, well, I think really love it.

But it said, women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.

this is in the 70s this was on our on our car um so she was a big sort of outward feminists on the one hand um and the other hand she was also like she was from a bad production of fiddler on the roof playing you know golda so it was like half kind of caught in that balance where you know wanted more couldn't quite have it and was fighting for it and was she an achieving person

I would say yes.

Both my parents were extraordinarily intelligent.

And I think they were frustrated that they didn't do better in their minds in sort of life.

Though they did far better, I think, than they should have, than they exceeded.

And we have this three of us, three sons that they had.

I'm the middle child.

And my older brother, Larry, just retired as the CEO of

of NRG, which is one of the largest energy companies, a Fortune 500 company, NRG Stadium, is where the Houston Texans play.

And my younger brother, who has lived in London for over 30 years now, was an investment banker and now a columnist for the Financial Times.

So everybody did accomplish, but we were pushed quite a bit

when we were younger.

They wanted you to be achievers.

They did.