June 30, 2000

Author Puts Himself Into Thriller About English Professor Who May Be Serial Killer; Journalism Professor Finally Finds Publisher for Book on Biotechnology Industry

By JEFF SHARLET and SCOTT HELLER

AND THE KITCHEN SINK, TOO: Plenty of writers put blood, sweat, and tears into their work, but the novelist Kenneth J. Harvey has just upped the ante: He's throwing his skin in as well.

Skin Hound (There Are No Words), due in August from Mercury Press, a Canadian publisher, is a literary thriller that has as its hero an English professor at a nameless university who may also be a serial killer known as "Skin Hound," for his practice of skinning his