Charlaine Harris
MAGNOLIA – The Student Activities Board at Southern Arkansas University will host guest lecturer Charlaine Harris at 7 p.m., on Tuesday, March 29, in the Grand Hall of the Donald W. Reynolds Campus and Community Center. The event is open to the public.
Harris is best known for her “Sookie Stackhouse” book series which inspired the HBO series “True Blood.”
A native of Mississippi, Harris has been writing mysteries for over twenty years. Born and raised in the Delta, she began training for her career as soon as she could hold a pencil. 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. She graduated to writing books a few years later.
Harris’s latest venture is a series about a telepathic barmaid in southern Louisiana. The first book in the series, Dead Until Dark, won an Anthony Award for best paperback mystery of 2001. Each book about Sookie Stackhouse (and her dealings with vampires, werewolves, and other creatures of the night) has gathered more readers to enjoy the books’ unique blend of mystery, humor, romance, and the supernatural. Thanks to this ever-growing fan base, Harris is a staple on the New York Times bestseller list and is the only author to accomplish the feat of having nine bestsellers at one time. The Sookie books are also being read in Japan, Spain, Greece, and Great Britain.
For more information, contact the Office of Student Activities at (870) 235-4925.
