{"id":4567,"date":"2017-07-05T15:16:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T19:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=4567"},"modified":"2017-07-05T15:16:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T19:16:52","slug":"the-map-collecting-author-and-his-map-collecting-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/07\/the-map-collecting-author-and-his-map-collecting-character\/","title":{"rendered":"The Map-Collecting Author and His Map-Collecting Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The protagonist of Colin Harrison’s latest crime novel,\u00a0You Belong to Me<\/em><\/a>, is an obsessive map collector. By some strange coincidence, so is Colin Harrison.\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0<\/em>looks at Harrison the map collector<\/a> and the ways he is similar to, and different from, the character in his novel. (They review the novel here<\/a>.) [Tony Campbell<\/a>\/WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The protagonist of Colin Harrison’s latest crime novel,\u00a0You Belong to Me, is an obsessive map collector. By some strange coincidence, so is Colin Harrison.\u00a0The New York Times\u00a0looks at Harrison the map collector and the ways… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-maps-and-literature","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1368,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/03\/encountering-map-dealers-hudson-arader\/","url_meta":{"origin":4567,"position":0},"title":"Encountering Map Dealers: Hudson, Arader","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"30 March 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"Atlas Obscura\u00a0profiles map\u00a0collector and dealer Murray Hudson. \"Today, Murray Hudson owns what is said to be the largest private collection of for-sale antique maps, prints and globes in the world. 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