Charlaine Harris

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Charlaine Harris Schulz

Born Charlaine Harris
November 25, 1951 (1951-11-25) (age 57)
Tunica, Mississippi
Pen name Charlaine Harris
Genres Mystery fiction
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Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951 in Tunica, Mississippi) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, and three children.[1] Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later.

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[edit] Biography

After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris began the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha Awards. Harris wrote several books in the series before the mid-1990s when she began branching out into other works. She did not resume the series until 1999, with the exception of one short story in a Murder, She Wrote anthology titled, "Murder, They Wrote."

In 1996, she released the first in the Shakespeare series, set in rural Arkansas. The fifth book in the series, Shakespeare's Counselor, was printed in fall 2001, followed by the short story "Dead Giveaway" published in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in December of the same year. Harris has stated on her website that she has finished with the series.

After Shakespeare, Harris created The Southern Vampire Mysteries series about a telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who works in a northern Louisiana bar. The first book in the series, 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 has been released in Japan, Spain, Greece, Germany, France, Argentina, Brazil, Great Britain, Ireland and Sweden .

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 Southern Vampire Mysteries.[2] He also wrote and directed the pilot episode for the series, True Blood, which premiered on September 7, 2008 on HBO .

October 2001 marked the debut of Harris's new series about a young woman named Harper Connelly, with the release of Grave Sight. Harper has the ability to determine the cause of death of any body.

Professionally, Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. Personally, Harris is married and the mother of three teenagers. A former weightlifter and karate student,[1] she is an avid reader and cinemaphile. Harris resides in Magnolia, Arkansas, where she is the senior warden of St. James Episcopal Church.[2]

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[edit] Aurora Teagarden Series

  1. Real Murders (1990) [3]
  2. A Bone to Pick (1992) [4]
  3. Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (1994) [5]
  4. The Julius House (1995) [6]
  5. Dead Over Heels. (1996) [7]
    • "Deeply Dead" in Murder, They Wrote (1997) [8]
  6. A Fool And His Honey [9]
  7. Last Scene Alive (2002), [10]
  8. Poppy Done to Death (2003) [11]

[edit] Lily Bard (Shakespeare) Series

  1. Shakespeare's Landlord (1996) [12]
  2. Shakespeare's Champion (1997) [13]
  3. Shakespeare's Christmas (1998) [14]
  4. Shakespeare's Trollop (2000) [15]
  5. Shakespeare's Counselor (2001) [16]

[edit] Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series

  1. Dead Until Dark (2001) [17]
  2. Living Dead in Dallas (March 2002) [18]
  3. Club Dead (May 2003) [19]
  4. Dead to the World (May 2004) [20]
    • "Fairy Dust" in Powers of Detection (October 2004) [21]
    • Dancers in the Dark (novella) in Night's Edge (Harlequin Enterprises) (October 2004) [22] (a Sookie-universe story without the character of Sookie Stackhouse)
    • "One Word Answer" in Bite (2005), [23]
  5. Dead as a Doornail (May 2005) [24]
  6. Definitely Dead (May 2006) [25]
    • "Tacky" in My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding (2006) [26] (a Sookie-universe story without the character of Sookie Stackhouse)
  7. All Together Dead (May 2007) [27]
    • "Dracula Night" in Many Bloody Returns (September 2007) [28]
  8. From Dead to Worse (May 2008) [29]
    • "Gift Wrap" in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (October 2008) [30]
    • "Lucky" in Unusual Suspects [31]
  9. Dead and Gone (May 2009) [32]

[edit] Harper Connelly Series

  1. Grave Sight (September 2006)
  2. Grave Surprise (September 2007)
  3. An Ice Cold Grave (October 2008)
  4. Grave Secret (October 2009)

[edit] Other/Non-Series

    • An Evening With Al Gore in Blood Lite (October 2008) [35]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Charlaine Harris: Putting the Bite on Cozy Mysteries"
  2. ^ Shepard, Martha Hunter (Fall 2007). "Charlaine Harris: Dead-On Author". Rhodes Magazine. Rhodes College. http://www.rhodes.edu/155_9930.asp. Retrieved on 29 November 2008. 
  3. ^ hardback ISBN 0-8027-5769-3, reprint 2007, paperback ISBN 978-04252187161992, UK paperback, ISBN 0-373-26104-7, 1991, paperback ISBN 0-7927-0752-4
  4. ^ hardback ISBN 0-8027-1245-2, reprint 2008, paperback, ISBN 978-0425219799, 1992, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26136-5
  5. ^ hardback ISBN 0-684-19643-3, reprint 2008, ISBN 978-0425220528, 1995, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26177-2
  6. ^ hardback ISBN 0-684-19640-9, 1996, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26217-5
  7. ^ hardback ISBN 0-684-80429-8, reprint 2008, paperback, ISBN 978-0425223031, 1998, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26260-4
  8. ^ ISBN 1-57297-194-0)
  9. ^ (1999, hardback ISBN 0-312-20306-3, 2001, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26384-8
  10. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-26246-9, reprint 2006, paperback, 978-0778323648, 2003, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26476-3
  11. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-27764-4, 2004, UK paperback ISBN 0-373-26504-2
  12. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-14415-6, 1997, paperback ISBN 0-440-22418-7, 2005, paperback reprint ISBN 0-425-20686-6
  13. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-17005-X, 1997, paperback ISBN 0-440-22421-7
  14. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-19330-0, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-440-23499-9
  15. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-26228-0, 2004, paperback ISBN 0-425-19699-2
  16. ^ hardback ISBN 0-312-27762-8, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-425-20114-7
  17. ^ ISBN 0-441-00853-4
  18. ^ ISBN 0-441-00923-9, 2009, hardcover ISBN 0-441-01673-1
  19. ^ ISBN 0-441-01051-2
  20. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01167-5, 2005, paperback ISBN 0-441-01218-3
  21. ^ ISBN 0-441-01197-7
  22. ^ ISBN 0-373-77010-3
  23. ^ ISBN 0-515-13970-X
  24. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01279-5, April 2006, audio book ISBN 1-4193-3730-0, paperback ISBN 0-441-01333-3
  25. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01400-3, audio book ISBN 1-4193-9326-X
  26. ^ paperback ISBN 0-312-34360-4
  27. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01494-1
  28. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01522-0
  29. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01589-4
  30. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01633-2
  31. ^ December 2008, paperback ISBN 0-441-01637-5
  32. ^ hardcover ISBN 0-441-01715-0
  33. ^ hardback ISBN 0-395-30532-2, 1985, paperback ISBN 0-345-32101-4, 1982, UK hardback ISBN 0-7091-9700-4, UK paperback ISBN 0-263-74030-7)
  34. ^ hardback ISBN 0-395-35323-8, 1984, paperback ISBN 0-345-32102-2, 1984, UK hardback ISBN 0-7278-1079-0
  35. ^ paperback ISBN 1-416-56783-6

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