Charlaine Harris is the New York Times bestselling author of the Southern Vampire Mysteries series, also known the Sookie Stackhouse series of books — which served as the source material for the popular HBO series True Blood. Harris is also the author of the Aurora Teagarden, and Lily Bard series as well as the Midnight, Texas series — which has been developed into a TV series for NBC. Born in Mississippi, Harris now calls southern Arkansas home, and has lived in the South her entire life.