Harlan Coben

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Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth · Rosebud in NYC - Harlan Coben · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

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.

And you delivered.

What did your father do?

My father, by trade, was an attorney, but he was vice president of a, most of his life, he was vice president of a sort of commercial laundry business, the kind of place that went around at night and grabbed all the tablecloths from restaurants and cleaned them off and

brought them back the next day that was what he did most of the time uh well what he did at the age of 57 he lost his job and the company was sold and i think that was a you know a terrible thing you know men are so we're so defined unfortunately by our our jobs that i think that was very hard on him so that's why you said earlier that there was a sense of slight disappointment in their lives that it might have been better they might have done more

I think that's most people anyway.

I mean, my parents were both, they really were super intelligent.

Both of my brothers, this is Americanism, so I don't know if this will translate, were both sort of geniuses.

Both my older and younger brother, they were able to, they got into Yale as undergraduates, both graduated Harvard Law School.

Those are the two top schools in the country.

We take a standardized test called the SATs here.

Both had perfect SAT scores.

So I was like the idiot brother between these two

geniuses who were skipping grades and doing all of that.

And so everyone in my family, I was probably the dumbest person, and I put that in quotes to some degree, in my family.

Really, everyone was sort of an intellectual and very... With your parents, how did their intelligence manifest itself?

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