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Jean Charlaine Harris Schulz (born November 25, 1951) is an American author who specializes in Mystery fiction. She is best known for her book series The Southern Vampire Mysteries, which was adapted as the TV series True Blood. The television show was a critical and financial success for HBO, running seven seasons, from 2008 through 2014.
Harris was born and raised in Tunica, Mississippi. She lives in Texas with her husband; they have three children. She began writing from an early age, and changed from playwriting in college to writing and publishing mysteries, including several long series featuring recurring characters.
After publishing two stand-alone mysteries, Harris began the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with Real Murders, nominated as a Best Novel 1990 for the . Harris wrote several books in the series before the mid-1990s, when she began branching out into other works.Deborah Solomon, "Questions for Charlene Harris: Once Bitten: The writer talks about her 10th vampire novel and the hit TV series it inspired," New York Times Magazine, May 2, 2010, p. 18. She did not resume the series until 1999, with the exception of one short story in an anthology titled "Murder, They Wrote".
In 1996, Harris published the first in the Shakespeare series, featuring cleaning lady detective Lily Bard, set in rural Arkansas. At the time, a New York Times interview with Harris noted that she "lived in small-town Arkansas". The fifth book in the series, Shakespeare's Counselor, was published in fall 2001, followed by the short story "Dead Giveaway", published in the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine in December 2001. Harris has said she is finished with that series.
Next Harris created The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, about a telepathic waitress named Sookie Stackhouse who works in a Northern Louisiana bar. The first book, Dead Until Dark, won the Anthony Award for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001. Each book follows Sookie as she tries to solve mysteries involving , werewolf, and other supernatural creatures. The series has been published in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Spain, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Argentina, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Great Britain, Ireland, Mexico, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Portugal, Iceland, Czech Republic, Romania, Estonia, and Israel. Harris wrote thirteen novels in the series; the last, Dead Ever After, was published in May 2013. A supplemental book, After Dead, was published in October 2013. The second novel, Living Dead in Dallas, won the 2003 Lord Ruthven Award for Fiction, and the anthology The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories won the 2018 Ruthven Award for Fiction.
October 2005 marked the debut of Harris's new series, entitled Harper Connelly Mysteries, with the release of Grave Sight. The series is told by a young woman named Harper Connelly, who after being struck by lightning, is able to locate dead bodies and to see their last moments through the eyes of the deceased. In October 2010, it was announced Harper Connelly's series had been optioned for a television series named Grave Sight.
The year 2014 marked the debut of the Cemetery Girl series, a graphic novel series co-written with Christopher Golden and illustrated by Don Kramer.
Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League, and has served as a member of the board of Sisters in Crime and as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance.
A Touch of Dead
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
A Touch of Dead
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
A Touch of Dead
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
Between the Dark and Daylight
A Touch of Dead
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
A Touch of Dead
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories
Living Dead in Dallas
Dead to the World
Dead as a Doornail
All Together Dead
From Dead to Worse
"Dracula Night"
"One Word Answer"
"Lucky"
"Gift Wrap"
"Dracula Night" (2007)
"One Word Answer" (2005)
"Lucky" (2008)
"Gift Wrap" (2008)
"Two Blondes" (2010)
"Small-Town Wedding" (2011)
"If I Had a Hammer" (2011)
"Playing Possum" (2012)
"In the Blue Hereafter" (2014)
In 2014, Hallmark Movies & Mysteries began adapting Harris' Aurora Teagarden novels into Aurora Teagarden, starring Candace Cameron Bure.
Harris's series Midnight, Texas was developed as a TV series by NBC and began airing on their network in 2017.
Life and career
Harris was born and grew up in Tunica, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta. In her early work she wrote poems about ghosts and teenage angst. She began writing plays while attending Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. Her most recent mysteries have been in the urban fantasy genre.
Personal life
Harris has long been married. She and her husband have three grown children and two grandchildren. She is a former weightlifter and karate student. "Charlaine Harris: Putting the Bite on Cozy Mysteries" , retrieved on 2009-10-27. She is also an avid reader and cinemaphile. Harris formerly resided in Magnolia, Arkansas, where she was the churchwarden of St. James Episcopal Church, and as of 2017 lives in Texas.
Bibliography
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Lily Bard (Shakespeare) series (1996–2001)
Sookie Stackhouse series (2001–14)
For more detailed information see The Southern Vampire Mysteries/True Blood.
1 Dead Until Dark Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set May 2001 2 Living Dead in Dallas Mar 2002 3 Club Dead May 2003 4 Dead to the World Mar 2004 4.1 Fairy Dust Powers of Detection
4.2 Dracula Night Many Bloody Returns
4.3 Dancers in the Dark Night's Edge novella 5 Dead as a Doornail Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set May 2005 5.1 One Word Answer Bite
6 Definitely Dead Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set May 2006 6.1 Tacky My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding Dahlia short storyA Southern Vampire story without the character of Sookie Stackhouse. 7 All Together Dead Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set May 2007 7.1 Lucky Unusual Suspects
8 From Dead to Worse Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set May 2008 8.1 Gift Wrap Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
8.2 Bacon Strange Brew makes an offhand reference to Jim Butcher's wizard, Harry Dresden;
a Dahlia short story 9 Dead and Gone May 2009 9.1 The Britlingens Go to Hell Must Love Hellhounds 9.2 Dahlia Underground Crimes by Moonlight takes place during All Together Dead;
10 Dead in the Family May 2010 10.1 Two Blondes Death's Excellent Vacation
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 10.2 Small-Town Wedding The Sookie Stackhouse Companion' novella 10.3 A Very Vampire Christmas Glamour Magazine Dec 2010 a Dahlia short story 11 Dead Reckoning May 2011 11.1 Death by Dahlia Down These Strange Streets a Dahlia short story 12 Deadlocked May 2012 12.1 If I Had a Hammer Home Improvement: Undead Edition
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 12.2 Playing Possum An Apple for the Creature
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 13 Dead Ever After May 2013 The final Sookie Stackhouse novel 13.1 The Blue Hereafter Games Creatures Play
The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories 14 After Dead: What Came Next The World of Sookie Stackhouse October 29, 2013 15 Dead But Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse November 25, 2014
Harper Connelly series (2005–2009)
Graphic novels
Cemetery Girl series (with Christopher Golden)
Midnight, Texas Trilogy (2014–2016)
Gunnie Rose series
Stand-alones
Anthologies and collections
Murder, They Wrote "Deeply Dead" 1997 Powers of Detection "Fairy Dust" Oct 2004 Night's Edge "Dancers in the Dark" Oct 2004 Bite "One Word Answer" Sep 2005 My Big, Fat Supernatural Wedding Tacky Oct 2006 Many Bloody Returns "Dracula Night" Sep 2007 Blood Lite "An Evening with Al Gore" Oct 2008 Wolfsbane and Mistletoe "Gift Wrap" Oct 2008 Unusual Suspects "Lucky" Dec 2008 Strange Brew "Bacon" Jul 2009 Must Love Hellhounds "The Britlingens Go to Hell" Sep 2009 Sookie Stackhouse 8 Copy Boxed Set Dead Until Dark
Sep 2009 Between the Dark and Daylight "Lucky" Sep 2009 A Touch of Dead "Fairy Dust"
Oct 2009 Crimes by Moonlight "Dahlia Underground" Apr 2010 Death's Excellent Vacation "Two Blondes" Aug 2010 Delta Blues "Crossroads Bargain" 2010 Home Improvement: Undead Edition "If I Had a Hammer" Aug 2011 The Sookie Stackhouse Companion "Small-Town Wedding" Aug 2011 An Apple for the Creature "Playing Possum" Sep 2012 Down These Strange Streets "Death by Dahlia" Oct/Nov 2011 The World of Sookie Stackhouse "After Dead: What Came Next" Oct 2013 An anthology with interviews, FAQ, recipes, and more Games Creatures Play "The Blue Hereafter" Apr 2014 Inherit the Dead "Five" 2014 Urban Allies "Blood for Blood" 2016 Matchup "Dig Here" 2017 The Complete Sookie Stackhouse Stories "Fairy Dust" (2004)
Nov 2017 (hardcover), (ebook) Heroic Hearts "The Return of the Mage" 2022
As editor
Adaptations
Audio
Harris' novels have often been adapted as full-cast dramatised productions by GraphicAudio, starting with their adaptation of her Cemetery Girl graphic novels. The company also adapted her Midnight Texas series, and her Gunnie Rose novels.
Television
Her series of novels The Southern Vampire Mysteries was adapted into the show True Blood. The series lasted seven seasons and totaled 80 episodes. It was nominated for dozens of awards. True Blood aired on HBO. The show was also the most viewed show on HBO since The Sopranos.
Video games
See also
External links
Categories: Www.charlaineharris.com Official Website, 1951 Births, 20th-century American Novelists, 20th-century American Women Novelists, 21st-century American Novelists, 21st-century American Women Novelists, American Episcopalians, American Horror Writers, American Mystery Writers, Anthony Award Winners, Cozy Mystery Writers, Living People, Novelists From Mississippi, People From Magnolia, Arkansas, People From Tunica, Mississippi, Writers From Texas, Rhodes College Alumni, Urban Fantasy Writers, Novelists From Arkansas, American Women Science Fiction And Fantasy Writers, American Women Horror Writers, American Women Mystery Writers, Inkpot Award Winners
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