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Charlaine Harris

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born

November 25, 1951 in Tunica, Mississippi, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.charlaineharris.com/

genre

Urban Fantasy, Mystery & Thrillers, Horror

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Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Now she lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, her three children, three dogs, and a duck. The duck stays outside.

Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, she had the opportunity to stay home and write, and the resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of writing mystery series, and soon had her own traditional books about a Georgia lib...moreCharlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Now she lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, her three children, three dogs, and a duck. The duck stays outside.

Though her early output consisted largely of ghost stories, by the time she hit college (Rhodes, in Memphis) Charlaine was writing poetry and plays. After holding down some low-level jobs, she had the opportunity to stay home and write, and the resulting two stand-alones were published by Houghton Mifflin. After a child-producing sabbatical, Charlaine latched on to the trend of writing mystery series, and soon had her own traditional books about a Georgia librarian, Aurora Teagarden. Her first Teagarden, Real Murders, garnered an Agatha nomination.

Soon Charlaine was looking for another challenge, and the result was the much darker Lily Bard series. The books, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, feature a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences.

When Charlaine began to realize that neither of those series was ever going to set the literary world on fire, she regrouped and decided to write the book she’d always wanted to write. Not a traditional mystery, nor yet pure science fiction or romance, Dead Until Dark broke genre boundaries to appeal to a wide audience of people who just enjoy a good adventure. Each subsequent book about Sookie Stackhouse, telepathic Louisiana barmaid and friend to vampires, werewolves, and various other odd creatures, has drawn more readers. The Southern Vampire books are published in Japan, Great Britain, Greece, Germany, Thailand, Spain, France, and Russia.

In addition to Sookie, Charlaine has another heroine with a strange ability. Harper Connelly, lightning-struck and strange, can find corpses… and that’s how she makes her living.

In addition to her work as a writer, Charlaine is the past senior warden of St. James Episcopal Church, a board member of Mystery Writers of America, a past board member of Sisters in Crime, a member of the American Crime Writers League, and past president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. She spends her "spare" time reading, watching her daughter play sports, traveling, and going to the movies. (less)

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Average rating: 3.94 · 908,406 ratings · 53,794 reviews · 98 distinct works

	Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 118,563 ratings — published 2001 — 66 editions	My rating:
	Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 80,671 ratings — published 2002 — 54 editions	My rating:
	Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4) 4.16 avg rating — 72,534 ratings — published 2004 — 52 editions	My rating:
	Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3) 4.02 avg rating — 75,134 ratings — published 2003 — 53 editions	My rating:
	Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5) 4.00 avg rating — 67,433 ratings — 45 editions	My rating:
	Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6) 4.02 avg rating — 65,083 ratings — published 2006 — 45 editions	My rating:
	All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7) 4.07 avg rating — 62,581 ratings — published 2006 — 39 editions	My rating:
	From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8) 4.03 avg rating — 60,480 ratings — published 2012 — 39 editions	My rating:
	Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9) 4.04 avg rating — 57,395 ratings — 34 editions	My rating:
	Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10) 3.82 avg rating — 45,878 ratings — published 2010 — 31 editions	My rating:

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Series by Charlaine Harris

Harper Connelly (4 books)
by Charlaine Harris

3.83 avg rating — 48,715 ratings

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries (8 books)
by Charlaine Harris

3.67 avg rating — 33,003 ratings

A Lily Bard Mystery (5 books)
by Charlaine Harris

3.73 avg rating — 24,727 ratings

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May 2010, Charlaine Harris
"Telepathy allowed [Sookie] to remain physically and mentally fit, even mentally tough, though it prevented her from dating. I wanted her to experience love for the first time at a later age than most women come to it." ...More

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Quotes by Charlaine Harris

“Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy.”
― Charlaine Harris

tags: books-vacation

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“You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”
― Charlaine Harris, Club Dead

tags: eric-northman , humor , romance , sookie-stackhouse , true-blood

709 people liked it

“If there were an international butt competition, Eric would win, hands down—or cheeks up.”
― Charlaine Harris, Dead to the World

tags: funny , sookie-eric

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Polls

What's your favorite paranormal series?

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

12 votes, 25.0%

Night Huntress by Jeaniene Frost

7 votes, 14.6%

Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris

6 votes, 12.5%

Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter by Laurell K. Hamilton

5 votes, 10.4%

The Twilight Saga by Stephanie Meyer

4 votes, 8.3%

House of Night by P.C. Cast

4 votes, 8.3%

Another series not listed here. (Leave a comment telling us which one it is.)

4 votes, 8.3%

Mercedes Thompson by Patricia Briggs

3 votes, 6.3%

Women of the Otherworld by Kelley Armstrong

2 votes, 4.2%

Wicked Lovely by Melissa Marr

1 vote, 2.1%

Dream Catcher by Lisa McMann

0 votes, 0.0%

48 total votes

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SciFi and Fantasy...: What I am also reading in October	59	252	Oct 30, 2008 07:50am
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