About
the Southern Vampire Author
Charlaine
Harris
The
text below was copied from the author's website.
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.
All
graphics, unless noted, and site made by Pamela Wang.
Sookie Stackhouse and True Blood are owned by Charlaine Harris and
HBO.
This is made by fans for fans.
