Debut Novel
Noble McCloud
A first novel centered on a young struggling musician and the difficult shape of ambition.
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Literary Fiction
Harvey Havel
Novelist. Short-story writer. Essayist.
For more than thirty years, Harvey Havel has written fiction and essays that move through politics, identity, power, obsession, and the fault lines of American life.
Nineteen books across novels, short fiction, and essays.
Featured Novel
The Queen of Intelligence
A 9/11 Conspiracy Novel
Historical FictionPolitical ThrillerLiterary Suspense
A serious, atmospheric work of fiction crossing politics, obsession, and the uneasy pressure of contemporary history.
About
Three decades of fiction, essays, and literary inquiry.
Harvey Havel has been a short-story writer and novelist for over thirty years. His first novel, Noble McCloud, A Novel, about a young struggling musician, was published in 1999. His body of work now spans novels, short stories, and essay collections on current affairs and political life.
He is a former Lecturer in English at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey, and also taught writing and literature at SUNY Albany and the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. He lives in Albany and continues to write for readers drawn to daring, searching, and uncompromising fiction.
Career Notes
1999
Noble McCloud, A Novel
His first novel, about a young struggling musician, was published in 1999.
Academic Life
Lecturer and teacher
He taught English, writing, and literature at Bergen Community College, SUNY Albany, and the College of Saint Rose.
Now
Albany, New York
He continues to write for readers drawn to daring, searching, and uncompromising fiction.
Authorial Note
Daring, searching, and uncompromising fiction.
30+
Years Writing
19
Books
Novels, Short Stories, Essays
Catalogue
Albany, New York
Based In
Books
A catalogue shaped like a private library.
Selected titles from Harvey Havel's body of work, presented with the restraint and atmosphere of a collected edition rather than an online shelf.
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The Wild Gypsy of Arbor Hill
Presented as part of Harvey Havel’s collected backlist.
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Stories from the Fall of the Empire
Presented as part of Harvey Havel’s collected backlist.
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The Odd and The Strange
Presented as part of Harvey Havel’s collected backlist.
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Mother: A Memoir
Presented as part of Harvey Havel’s collected backlist.
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Featured Novel
The Queen of Intelligence
A 9/11 Conspiracy Novel
A provocative work of fiction set in the long shadow of September 11 - blending espionage, power, psychological tension, and political unease into a sweeping literary thriller.
Historical FictionPolitical ThrillerLiterary Suspense
Themes
Fiction that confronts power, longing, politics, and the unstable architecture of modern life.
Harvey Havel's work moves between the intimate and the geopolitical, pairing personal fracture with larger cultural pressure.
Press
In Conversation
Read Harvey Havel's interview with Robert Nagle at Imaginary Planet.
Imaginary Planet
An editorial conversation on fiction, politics, and the pressure points of American life.
A substantial interview with Robert Nagle, centered on literary method, serious themes, and the wider concerns moving through Harvey Havel's work.
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