Charlaine Harris

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born

in Tunica, Mississippi, The United States

November 25, 1951

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 librarian, Auro...more 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 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: 3.95 · 1,744,057 ratings · 76,852 reviews · 101 distinct works · Similar authors

	Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) 3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 254,238 ratings — published 2001 — 82 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living Dead in Dallas (Sookie Stackhouse, #2) 3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 141,270 ratings — published 2002 — 68 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead to the World (Sookie Stackhouse, #4) 4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 129,369 ratings — published 2004 — 68 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Club Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #3) 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 132,525 ratings — published 2003 — 71 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead as a Doornail (Sookie Stackhouse, #5) 4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 120,019 ratings — published 2005 — 61 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Definitely Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #6) 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 116,260 ratings — published 2006 — 58 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Together Dead (Sookie Stackhouse, #7) 4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 111,897 ratings — published 2007 — 53 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From Dead to Worse (Sookie Stackhouse, #8) 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 108,721 ratings — published 2008 — 54 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead and Gone (Sookie Stackhouse, #9) 4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 104,746 ratings — published 2009 — 48 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse, #10) 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 89,882 ratings — published 2010 — 46 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Charlaine Harris

Harper Connelly (4 books)
by Charlaine Harris
3.872188412581645 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 89,718 ratings

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries (8 books)
by Charlaine Harris
3.7344743358094092 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 59,772 ratings

Lily Bard Mysteries (5 books)
by Charlaine Harris
3.7984631823038626 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 43,987 ratings

Grave Sight Graphic Novel (3 books)
by Charlaine Harris, Denis Medri, William Harms
3.8996865203761755 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 638 ratings

The Cemetery Girl Trilogy (1 book)
by Charlaine Harris, Christopher Golden (Goodreads Author)
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings

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"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

1,103 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

890 people liked it

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In Charlaine Harris's Dead Until Dark, which character do you think is the coolest?

Eric

60 votes, 39.0%

Bill Compton

23 votes, 14.9%

Lafeyette

19 votes, 12.3%

Sookie Stackhouse

16 votes, 10.4%

Sookie and Bill

14 votes, 9.1%

Sam

10 votes, 6.5%

Sookie and Eric

8 votes, 5.2%

vampires in general

2 votes, 1.3%

Arlene

1 vote, 0.6%

Bill and Eric

1 vote, 0.6%

Jason

0 votes, 0.0%

one of the vampire trio who visited Bill that one night

0 votes, 0.0%

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