Deborah Harkness
Né(e): April 05, 1965 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Deborah Harkness is an American historian of science and medicine and novelist whose work spans early modern Europe, alchemy, and fantasy. She is best known for the All Souls series, beginning with A Discovery of Witches, a New York Times bestseller adapted for television, which broadened her international readership.
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Deborah Harkness built her career at the intersection of scholarship and storytelling. Raised outside Philadelphia, she studied at Mount Holyoke College, earned an M.A. from Northwestern University in 1990, completed a Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis, in 1994, and later taught at Colgate, UC Davis, Oxford’s Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Northwestern University Medical School, and the University of Southern California, where she is now Professor Emerita of History. Her academic work centered on the history of science, medicine, magic, and books in early modern Europe, and that long apprenticeship in archives became the foundation of her fiction. ((https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-deborah-harkness-20110410-story.html?utm_source=openai))
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"Deborah Harkness writes fiction about witches, reads nonfiction about Shakespeare"
— The Boston Globe
"Deborah Harkness has done us proud with her magnificent, enthralling, engrossing sequel"
— Manda Scott
"Deborah Harkness's novel is a brilliant synthesis of magic and history"
— Ivy Pochoda
"Academic, novelist and internationally bestselling author Deborah Harkness bewitched readers and reviewers across the globe"
— Glamour UK
"Deborah Harkness writes as if she's the hugely more talented love child of Diana Gabaldon and J. K. Rowling"
— thebookbag.co.uk
"Author Deborah Harkness, a UCLA history professor, brings vast knowledge and research to the page"
— The Plain Dealer
"Shadow of Night confirms Deborah Harkness as a master storyteller"
— Chicago Tribune
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