April 5, 2014 - Charlaine Harris
Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for over thirty years. She was born and raised in the Mississippi River Delta area. Though her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She switched to novels a few years later, and achieved publication in 1981 with Sweet and Deadly.
After publishing two stand-alone mysteries,
Harris launched the lighthearted Aurora Teagarden books with
Real Murders, a Best Novel 1990 nomination for the Agatha
Awards. Harris wrote eight books in her series about a Georgia
librarian. In 1996, she released the first in the much darker
Shakespeare mysteries, featuring the amateur sleuth Lily Bard, a
karate student who makes her living cleaning houses.
Shakespeare’s Counselor, the fifth—and final—Lily Bard
novel, was printed in fall 2001.
In October 2005, the first of Harris’s new
mystery series about a young woman named Harper Connelly debuted
with the release of Grave Sight. Harper has the
ability to determine the cause of death of any body. After four
novels, this series is on hiatus.
Personally, Harris has been married for many
years. She is the mother of three wonderful children and the grandmother of
two. She lives in central Texas, and when she is not writing her own
books, she reads omnivorously. Her house is full of rescue dogs.
Location:
The Dallas MWASW group meets the first Saturday of each month at Texas Land & Cattle, 812 South Central Expressway, Richardson, TX 75080. Meeting time is 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. There is a $5.00 door fee, cash only (correct change greatly appreciated). All who attend are invited to remain for lunch. Contact info: james@gaskin.com--
James E. Gaskin
http://www.gaskin.com
Writer / Consultant / Speaker
Latest book: Email From a Dead Friend (Kindle)
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