Charlaine Harris
 Charlaine Harris (born November 25 1951) is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty 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.