Charlaine Harris: The Southern Vampire Mysteries

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Born November 25, 1951 is Charlaine Harris. Best known for The Southern Vampire Mysteries (True Blood) and The Sookie Stackhouse Novels. She is a New York Times bestselling author. She has writing many novels and has been writing mysteries for thirty years. Here’s more about Charlaine Harris and accomplishments she has made during her life.
Charlaine Harris was born and raised in Tunica, Mississippi. Her parents are Robert Harris who was a local principal and Jean Harris who was a librarian. Charlaine has one brother and his name is Ashley Robert Harris III. In the fourth grade she first developed an interest in writing. When she entered Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee she began writing plays. In 1973 from Southwestern University at Memphis

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