Charlaine Harris

Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951 in Tunica , Mississippi ) is a " New York Times " bestselling author and prefers to write mystery stories. Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, she started writing when she was young. Her early works are mostly about ghosts and teenagers. She lives with her husband and three children in Magnolia ( Arkansas ).

biography

Charlaine Harris began writing poetry about ghosts as a teenager. She wrote plays and short stories while studying at Rhode College in Memphis . After their first marriage, she worked as a typesetter for various daily newspapers in Clarksdale, Mississippi and Greenville, Mississippi. Shortly after their second wedding, she started the first part of her Aurora Teagarden series and received a nomination for the Agatha Award . She was also an active weightlifter and karate fighter.

In the mid-1990s, Harris concentrated increasingly on other works and only published part of the Aurora Teagarden series again in 1999 . One of these new works was the Shakespeare series. Since 2001 she has written the Sookie Stackhouse book series , which is about vampires and other supernatural creatures. The screenwriter Alan Ball conceived the series based on the book series True Blood with Anna Paquin in the role of Sookie Stackhouse, which was broadcast between September 2008 and August 2014 on the US television channel HBO .

In October 2005 Harris published another mystery series Harper Connelly , which, like her other series, is set in the southern United States.

Charlaine Harris is a member of the American Crime Writers League and the Mystery Writers of America Association . She is a member of the St. James Episcopal Church ( Anglican Communion ).

Works

Aurora Teagarden Series

Aurora Teagarden is a librarian who solves criminal cases.

Real Murders (Real Murders: Aurora Teagarden 1, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86762-096-3 )
A Bone to Pick (bone heritage: Aurora Teagarden 2, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86762-099-4 )
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (three rooms, corpse, bathroom: Aurora Teagarden 3, 2012, ISBN 978-3-86762-117-5 )
The Julius House (The Julius House, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86762-175-5 )
Dead Over Heels (Out of the Blue, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86762-176-2 )
A Fool And His Honey (The Fool and Death, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86762-196-0 )
Last Scene Alive (last appearance, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86762-210-3 )
Poppy Done to Death

Lily Bard Series (Shakespeare Series)

Lily Bard, a cleaning lady with a past, lives in the sleepy southern town of Shakespeare. The leisure karate fighter has a detective instinct and (against her will) solves various criminal cases.

Shakespeare's Landlord (Death in Shakespeare, 2004, ISBN 978-3-434-53125-8 )
Shakespeare's Champion
Shakespeare's Christmas
Shakespeare's Trollop
Shakespeare's Counselor

Sookie Stackhouse Series (A Southern Vampire Novel)

Sookie Stackhouse is a waitress in a small town in the US state of Louisiana . She has the ability to read other people's thoughts. Vampires who have since turned to the public are immune to their powers. They feed on synthetic blood and fight for their own rights. Sookie meets the vampire Bill Compton and falls in love with him, whereupon she gains access to the vampire community.

Dead Until Dark (Temporarily dead, 2004, ISBN 978-3-86762-055-0 )
Living Dead in Dallas (Undead in Dallas, 2004, ISBN 978-3-86762-056-7 )
Club Dead (Club Dead, 2005, ISBN 978-3-86762-057-4 )
Dead to the World (The Vampire Who Loved Me, 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-20982-3 )
Dead as a Doornail (Vampires Preferred, 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-21057-7 )
Definitely Dead (Ball of the Vampires, 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-20987-8 )
All Together Dead (Vampires sound asleep, 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-21068-3 )
From Dead to Worse (A vampire for all cases, 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-21148-2 )
Dead and Gone (Vampire Whisper, 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-21222-9 )
Dead in the Family (Warning of Vampires, 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-21283-0 )
Dead Reckoning (Vampire with a Past, 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-21386-8 )
Deadlocked (Cocktail for a Vampire, 2013, ISBN 978-3-423-21428-5 )
Dead Ever After (final Sookie Stackhouse novel, vampire melody, 2014, ISBN 978-3-423-21500-8 )

See also: True Blood , television series

Short stories

Death's Excellent Vacation (Death on Vacation, 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-21363-9 )
Between the Dark and Daylight (Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg)
A Touch of Dead (Vampires and Other Little Things, 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-21343-1 )
Unusual suspects
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (Werewolves for Christmas, 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-21175-8 )
Many Bloody Returns (Happy Bissday! Vampire Stories, 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-21096-6 )
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Powers of Detection

Harper Connelly series

Ever since Harper Connelly was struck by lightning as a teenager, she has had the ability to find dead people and determine the causes of death. With this gift, she now makes a living and travels through America with her stepbrother and manager Tolliver Lang.

Grave Sight (Grabesstimmen, 2008, ISBN 978-3-423-21051-5 )
Grave Surprise (False Grave, 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-21121-5 )
An Ice Cold Grave (An Ice Cold Grave, 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-21196-3 )
Grave Secret (Grabeshauch, 2011, ISBN 978-3-423-21268-7 )

Others

Delta Blues (Carolyn Haines - editor)
A Secret Rage (Silent Wrath, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86762-068-0 )
Sweet and Deadly

Short stories with other authors

Crimes by Moonlight (Charlaine - editor)
Must Love Hellhounds (Hellish Temptation, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8025-8501-2 )
Strange Brew
Blood Lite
My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding
Night's Edge (In deep night: Dance in the dark / House of death / In your shadow, 2011, ISBN 978-3-89941-817-0 )

Awards

2002 Anthony Award as best paperback novel for Dead until Dark (Ger. Temporarily dead . Feder und Schwert, Mannheim 2004)
2012 Anthony Award for Best Nonfiction Book for The Sookie Stackhouse Companion

Web links

Reviews

themenguide.de : Ball of the Vampires ; The vampire who loved me ; Vampires Preferred ;

Remarks

↑ This does not mean the mouth region of the Mississippi south of Baton Rouge , Louisiana , but a region on the Mississippi in the state of the same name, see → Lower Mississippi Delta Region and → Yazoo River

personal data
SURNAME	Harris, Charlaine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American romance writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 25, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tunica

[1] This does not mean the mouth region of the Mississippi south of Baton Rouge , Louisiana , but a region on the Mississippi in the state of the same name, see → Lower Mississippi Delta Region and → Yazoo River