Wissenswertes

Longtime close friend of Chris Christie, both having attended the same New Jersey school and graduating in the same class.

His Amherst College (Massachusetts) fraternity brother was author and friend Dan Brown, and Coben was one of the very first people to read Brown's 2003 bestseller "The Da Vinci Code".

Father of writer Charlotte Coben.

He was inducted into the 2017 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts & Letters category.

Owns a duplex apartment in Manhattan's Dakota Building, a location that features in the plots of many of his novels.

Wife Anne is a pediatrician.

His two Havanese dogs are named Lazlo and Winslow.

His late father, a lawyer, died of a heart attack in 1988 at age 59.