She is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. There are four Harper titles (Grave Sight, Grave Surprise, An Ice Cold Grave and Grave Secret).Ĭharlaine Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League. Harris's newest series features Harper Connelly, a young woman who, after being struck by lightning, finds herself able to locate the bodies of the dead and to determine the cause of their death.
The second season of TRUE BLOOD will start this spring. It was an instant hit when it premiered in the US, and that success was repeated when it was first aired in Britain last year.
Sookie Stackhouse also enchanted Alan Ball, creator of the smash TV show Six Feet Under, who took an option and wrote and directed the pilot episode for True Blood himself.
The Sookie Stackhouse series, in which Sookie has to deal with vampires, werecreatures and other supernatural folk - not to mention her own complicated love life - was also instrumental in creating the urban fantasy genre. It also won Harris a whole new fan club of devoted readers and pushed her into the bestseller lists. Dead Until Dark won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery. 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.Ĭharlaine Harris then wrote the first of her Southern vampire mysteries starring Sookie Stackhouse, the quirky, telepathic waitress who works in a bar in the fictional Northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps.
The first of the eight books, Real Murders, was shortlisted for Best Novel in the 1990 Agatha Awards. 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 and started writing novels a few years later.Īfter publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched a light-hearted mystery series 'starring' Georgia librarian Aurora Teagarden. Charlaine Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi, and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area in the middle of a cotton field.
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