Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people – so they’re the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild.
Deborah Harkness Quotes
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
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| Birth: | 1965 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Historian, Novelist, Professor |
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Deborah Harkness was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is an American novelist and professor, best known as a historian and the author of the "All Souls" Trilogy which begins with The New York Times best selling novel A Discovery of Witches and includes its sequels Shadow of Night and The Book of Life. She is a well-regarded historian of science and medicine. She is a professor of history and teaches European history and the history of science at the University of Southern California.
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