November 25: Happy Birthday Charlaine Harris

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Novelist Charlaine Harris is celebrating her 66th. She grew up in the Mississippi Delta area, and began writing plays while attending Rhodes College in Tennessee. Her first novel, Sweet and Deadly, was published in 1981, but it wasn’t until the start of the 1990s that she began writing her first well-known books, the Aurora Teagarden series, about a librarian who is part of a club of amateur sleuths. The Shakespeare series, featuring another amateur detective, Lily Bard, followed, as did the Harper Connelly and Midnight, Texas series.

Harris’s most successful books, however, were the Southern Vampire Mysteries, featuring telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse. The first in the series, Dead Until Dark, came out in 2001 and won an Anthony Award; by the time Harris brought it to a close, it had reached thirteen novels and eighteen short stories. HBO developed the novels into the series True Blood, which ran for seven seasons and starred Anna Paquin as Sookie.


In addition to True Blood, Harris’s Aurora Teagarden series was adapted into a series of Hallmark TV movies starring Candice Cameron Bure, while NBC’s Midnight, Texas was a summer series earlier this year—no word at present on whether it will get a second season.