Charlaine Harris is a
New York Times bestselling author who has been writing
mysteries for over twenty years. 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 works 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.