Charlaine Harris Schulz was born on November 25,1951 and is an American author who specializes in mysteries.
14 Facts About Charlaine Harris
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Charlaine Harris is best known for her book series The Southern Vampire Mysteries, which was adapted as the TV series True Blood.
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Charlaine Harris began writing from an early age, and changed from playwriting in college to writing and publishing mysteries, including several long series featuring recurring characters.
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Charlaine Harris was born and grew up in Tunica, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta.
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Charlaine Harris began writing plays while attending Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Charlaine Harris wrote several books in the series before the mid-1990s, when she began branching out into other works.
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Charlaine Harris did not resume the series until 1999, with the exception of one short story in a Murder, Charlaine Harris Wrote anthology titled "Murder, They Wrote".
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In 1996, Charlaine Harris published the first in the Shakespeare series, featuring cleaning lady detective Lily Bard, set in rural Arkansas.
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At the time, a New York Times interview with Charlaine Harris noted that she "live[d] in small-town Arkansas".
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Charlaine Harris wrote thirteen novels in the series; the last, Dead Ever After, was published in May 2013.
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Professionally, Charlaine Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the American Crime Writers League.
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Charlaine Harris is a member of the board of Sisters in Crime, and alternates with Joan Hess as president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance.
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Charlaine Harris is a former weightlifter and karate student, she is an avid reader and cinemaphile.
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Charlaine Harris formerly resided in Magnolia, Arkansas, where she was the senior warden of St James Episcopal Church, and as of 2017 lives in Texas.