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Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling
author who has been writing for thirty years. She was born
and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. Though her
early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and
teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended
Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She switched to novels
a few years later, and achieved publication in 1981 with
Sweet and Deadly.
After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched
the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real
Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha
Awards. Harris wrote eight books in her series about a
Georgia librarian. In 1996, she released the first in the
much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur
sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living
cleaning houses. Shakespeare’s Counselor, the
fifth—and last—was printed in fall 2001.
After Shakespeare, Harris created The Sookie
Stackhouse urban fantasy series about a telepathic
waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who works in a bar in the
fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The first
book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony
Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each book follows
Sookie through her adventures involving vampires,
werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The series,
which now numbers eleven titles, has been released worldwide.
Sookie Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan
Ball, creator of the HBO television series Six Feet
Under, announced he would undertake the production of a
new HBO series based upon the books He wrote and directed
the pilot episode for that series, True Blood, which
premiered in September of 2008 . It was an instant success
and is now filming its fourth season.
In October 2005, the first of Harris’s new mystery
series about a young woman named Harper Connelly debuted
with the release of Grave Sight. Harper has the
ability to determine the cause of death of any body. After
four novels, this series is on hiatus.
Harris has also co-edited four very popular anthologies with
her friend Toni L.P. Kelner. The anthologies feature stories
with an element of the supernatural, and the submissions
come from a rare mixture of mystery and urban fantasy writers.
Professionally, Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of
America, the American Crime Writers League, Sisters in
Crime, and the International Crime Writers Association. She
is a past member of the boards of Sisters in Crime and MWA.
She is also a member of Science Fiction Writers of America,
Horror Writers Association, and Romance Writers of America,
just to make sure she’s covered.
Personally, Harris is married and the mother of three. She
lives in a small town in Southern Arkansas and when she is
not writing her own books, she reads omnivorously. Her house
is full of rescue dogs.
Books:
Poppy Done to Death, March 2013
Last Scene Alive, October 2012
A Fool and His Honey, June 2012
 Dead as a Doornail, June 2012
Deadlocked, May 2012
Dead Reckoning, April 2012
Dead in the Family, March 2012
Dead Over Heels, March 2012
Dead in the Family, October 2011
The Julius House, October 2011
Dead and Gone, September 2011
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion, September 2011
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, June 2011
Dead Reckoning, May 2011
 Crimes by Moonlight, April 2011
Dead and Gone, April 2011
Dead in the Family, April 2011
A Bone to Pick, March 2011
Grave Secret, November 2010
Real Murders, October 2010
Dead in the Family, May 2010
Crimes by Moonlight, April 2010
Dead and Gone, April 2010
From Dead to Worse, February 2010
Grave Secret, November 2009
Poppy Done to Death, July 2009
Last Scene Alive, May 2009
Dead and Gone, May 2009
From Dead to Worse, April 2009
A Fool and His Honey, February 2009
Living Dead in Dallas, January 2009
 Shakespeare's Christmas, November 2008
An Ice Cold Grave, October 2008
Dead Until Dark, September 2008
Dead Over Heels, August 2008
The Julius House, June 2008
From Dead to Worse, May 2008
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse, March 2008
A Bone to Pick, February 2008
Real Murders, December 2007
An Ice Cold Grave, October 2007
Grave Surprise, October 2007
A Secret Rage, August 2007
All Together Dead, May 2007
Definitely Dead, April 2007
Sweet and Deadly, March 2007
Shakespeare's Champion, December 2006
Grave Surprise, October 2006
Grave Sight, October 2006
Definitely Dead, May 2006
Dead As A Doornail, May 2006
Shakespeare's Landlord, November 2005
Grave Sight, October 2005
Dead As A Doornail, May 2005
Dead To The World, May 2005
Shakespeare's Counselor, February 2005
Shakespeare's Trollop, May 2004
Dead to the World, May 2004
Club Dead, May 2003
Living Dead in Dallas, April 2002
Dead Until Dark, May 2001
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