Charlaine Harris. Charlaine Harris (born November 25, 1951) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years.[2] 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.[2] 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, otherwise known as The Sookie Stackhouse Novels.[3] Life and career[edit] Harris was born in Tunica, Mississippi. In 1996, she released the first in the Shakespeare series featuring cleaning lady detective Lily Bard, set in rural Arkansas.
October 2005 marked the debut of Harris's new series entitled The Harper Connelly Mysteries, with the release of Grave Sight. As editor[edit] THE Complete List of Charlaine Harris True Blood Books. Updated December 2, 2012 If you’re following the True Blood series on HBO you should definitely start reading the Sookie Stackhouse vampire books by Charlaine Harris. The books are part of her Southern Vampire Mystery series and they’re as entertaining as the True Blood television show. Actually, they’re MORE entertaining in some ways because they give you additional information about the main characters: Sookie, Bill, Sam, and Eric. They’re also pretty darn funny! Listed below are ALL of the Sookie Stackhouse books in the series as well as other books that include the great Sookie character. By the way: if you click on a book and make a purchase at Amazon, I eventually receive a small commission and you help support the work I do here to keep the site current. Book 1:Dead Until DarkMeet Sookie Stackhouse, a plucky waitress working in the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana.
Book 3: Club DeadSookie’s boyfriend has been very distant. Sookie Stackhouse Boxed Set (Books 1-8) NEW! Bite Blood Lite. Chat with charlaine. Charlaine Harris Talks About True Blood. Charlaine Harris Official Website. 'True Blood's baby vamp is Charlaine Harris' favorite departure. Alan Ball (screenwriter) Alan E.
Ball (born May 13, 1957)[1] is an American writer, director, and producer for television, film, and theatre. Ball broke into television as a writer and story editor on the situation comedies Grace Under Fire and Cybill.[5] In 2010 Ball began work on a television adaptation of the crime noir novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston, to be titled All Signs of Death.[8][9] In December 2010, after several months of pre-production, HBO cancelled production on All Signs of Death.[10] In January 2015, it was announced that Ball's period musical drama Virtuoso had had a pilot ordered by HBO. The pilot will be executively produced by Elton John.
Ball is gay and has been called "a strong voice for [the] LGBT community". For his work in television and film, Ball has received critical acclaim and numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, an Emmy a Golden Globe, and awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds.[17] Specific citations.