Charlaine Harris

(1951 --)

Charlaine Harris Schulz is an American author who writes as Charlaine Harris.

She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area of the United States. She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children.

Though her early work consisted largely of poems about ghosts and, later, teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She began to write books a few years later. Her later books have been in the urban fantasy genre. She is best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries series, which HBO later adapted for its dramatic series entitled True Blood.

Awards, Honors and GoHships:

• 2004 -- ArmadilloCon 26
• 2007 -- CopperCon 27, Darrell Awards for Novel
• 2008 -- Necon 28
• 2011 -- Boskone 48
• 2014 -- FantasyCon 2014
• 2020 -- MisCon 34
• 2022 -- Miscon 36

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