![]() ![]() Starting with the premise of a young woman with a disability who wants to try inter-species dating, she created The Sookie Stackhouse urban fantasy series before there was a genre called “urban fantasy.” Telepathic barmaid Sookie Stackhouse works in a bar in the fictional northern Louisiana town of Bon Temps. Shakespeare’s Counselor, the fifth-and final-Lily Bard novel, was printed in fall 2001.īy then, Harris was feeling the call of new territory. In 1996, she released the first in the much darker Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a karate student who makes her living cleaning houses. Harris wrote eight books in her series about a Georgia librarian. She switched to novels a few years later, and achieved publication in 1981 with Sweet and Deadly.Īfter publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris launched the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha Awards. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. ![]() ![]() She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty years. ![]()
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