Deborah Harkness | |
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 Harkness at the 2018 U.S. National Book Festival | |
| Born | 1965 (age 58–59) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Scholar, novelist |
| Education | Mount Holyoke College (BA) Northwestern University (MA) University of California, Davis (PhD) |
| Genre | Fantasy, historical fiction |
| Notable works | A Discovery of Witches Shadow of Night The Book of Life Time's Convert |
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 "Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century", Deborah Harkness & Jim Voelkel, Science History Institute |
Deborah Harkness (born 1965) is an American scholar and novelist, best known as a historian and as the author of the All Souls Trilogy, which consists of The New York Times best-selling novel A Discovery of Witches and its sequels Shadow of Night and The Book of Life. Her latest book is The Black Bird Oracle, a sequel to the All Souls Trilogy.