Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951 in Tunica, Mississippi) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over twenty years. She was raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she wrote plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later.
After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched a lighthearted series "starring" Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden, with Real Murders, a Best Novel nominee for the 1990 Agatha Awards. Harris wrote eight Aurora titles. In 1996, she released the first of 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 who works in a bar in the fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. The first of these, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each book follows Sookie as she tries to solve mysteries involving vampires, werewolves, and other supernatural creatures. The series, which now numbers nine titles, has been released worldwide.
Sookie Stackhouse proved to be so popular that Alan Ball, creator of Six Feet Under, announced he would undertake the production of a new show for HBO 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 was quickly picked up for a second season.
Speculative Fiction Novels (27)
The Russian Cage (Gunnie Rose #3) 2021 | fantasy, alternate history |
A Longer Fall (Gunnie Rose #2) 2020 | fantasy, alternate history |
An Easy Death (Gunnie Rose #1) 2018 | fantasy, alternate history |
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories (The Southern Vampire Mysteries) 2017 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance, short stories |
Dancers in the Dark & Layla Steps Up: The Layla Collection (The Southern Vampire Mysteries) 2017 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance, short stories |
Night Shift (Midnight, Texas #3) 2016 | fantasy > urban fantasy, mystery |
Day Shift (Midnight, Texas #2) 2015 | fantasy > urban fantasy, mystery |
Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas #1) 2014 | fantasy > urban fantasy, mystery |
After Dead: What Came Next in the World of Sookie Stackhouse (The Southern Vampire Mysteries) 2013 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Dead Ever After (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #13) 2013 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Deadlocked (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #12) 2012 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Dead Reckoning (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #11) 2011 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Dead in the Family (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #10) 2010 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Grave Secret (Harper Connelly #4) 2009 | fantasy > urban fantasy, thriller |
A Touch of Dead (The Southern Vampire Mysteries) 2009 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance, short stories |
Dead and Gone (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #9) 2009 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
From Dead to Worse (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #8) 2008 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
All Together Dead (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #7) 2007 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
An Ice Cold Grave (Harper Connelly #3) 2007 | fantasy > urban fantasy, thriller |
Definitely Dead (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #6) 2006 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Grave Surprise (Harper Connelly #2) 2006 | fantasy > urban fantasy, thriller |
Dead as a Doornail (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #5) 2005 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Grave Sight (Harper Connelly #1) 2005 | fantasy > urban fantasy, thriller |
Dead to the World (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #4) 2004 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Club Dead (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #3) 2003 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Living Dead in Dallas (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #2) 2002 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Dead Until Dark (The Southern Vampire Mysteries #1) 2001 | fantasy > urban fantasy, romance > paranormal romance |
Comics and Anthology (13)
Haunted (Cemetery Girl #3) 2018 | fantasy > urban fantasy, comics |
Inheritance (Cemetery Girl #2) 2015 | fantasy > urban fantasy, comics |
Dead But Not Forgotten 2014 | fantasy > urban fantasy, anthology |
Games Creatures Play 2014 | fantasy, anthology |
The Pretenders (Cemetery Girl #1) 2013 | fantasy > urban fantasy, comics |
An Apple for the Creature 2012 | fantasy > urban fantasy, anthology |
Death's Excellent Vacation 2011 | fantasy, anthology |
Home Improvement: Undead Edition 2011 | fantasy, anthology |
Must Love Hellhounds 2009 | fantasy, anthology |
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe 2008 | fantasy, anthology |
Many Bloody Returns 2007 | fantasy, anthology |
Bite 2005 | fantasy, anthology |
Night's Edge 2004 | fantasy, horror, anthology |
Others non-spefi books (2)
Small Kingdoms and Other Stories 2019 | short stories, mystery |
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion (The Southern Vampire Mysteries) 2011 | non-fiction |