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 ... (more)
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Comics and Anthology (13) | |
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2018 Haunted (Cemetery Girl, #3)
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2015 Inheritance (Cemetery Girl, #2)
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2014 Dead But Not Forgotten
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2014 Games Creatures Play
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2013 The Pretenders (Cemetery Girl, #1)
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2012 An Apple for the Creature
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2011 Death's Excellent Vacation
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2011 Home Improvement: Undead Edition
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2009 Must Love Hellhounds
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2008 Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
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2007 Many Bloody Returns
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2005 Bite
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2004 Night's Edge
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Others non-spefi books (2) | |
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2019 Small Kingdoms and Other Stories
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2011 The Sookie Stackhouse Companion (The Southern Vampire Mysteries)
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