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Deborah Harkness

Nascido: 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.

Biografia e Jornada do Autor

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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The leather-bound volume was nothing remarkable
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In every soul, there is a place reserved for Shadow
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On her last night as a warmblood, Phoebe Taylor had been a good daughter
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Ghosts didn’t have much substance
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This video captures just a whisper of that long lost sound of a London we can now visit only in our imaginations
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If you are struggling with any issue right now–not just cancer, but a life challenge or obstacle of any sort–know that there is always hope
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You may not be able to reclaim your old life but there is a new life waiting for you, be it long or short
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