Harkness is also the author of the award-winning wine blog, Good Wine Under $20. On May 12, 2014, chapter 1 was released on Harkness' website. On January 9, 2014, the United States front cover and a two-page excerpt were released to the public on USA Today.

The book was published on July 15, 2014, in hardback, e-book, and audiobook in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland. The third novel in the series is called The Book of Life. The second novel in the series, Shadow of Night, was published a year later, becoming a number one success on The New York Times Best Seller list. The book was called 'a sophisticated fairy tale for adults' by the San Antonio Express-News. The novel debuted at number two on The New York Times Best Seller hardcover fiction list, and has been sold in at least 34 countries. The first novel in the All Souls trilogy, A Discovery of Witches is a historical fiction novel that tells the story of a modern-day witch who inadvertently calls up an ancient enchanted manuscript at Oxford University's Bodleian Library thereby attracting the unwelcome notice of a host of magical creatures who live among humans, including other witches, daemons, and a 1,500-year-old French vampire. In 2011, Harkness published her first work of fiction, A Discovery of Witches. She has published two works of historical non-fiction, John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy and the End of Nature (1999) and The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution (2007). Harkness is a professor of history and teaches European history and the history of science at the University of Southern California. She is a well-regarded historian of science and medicine, as well as having studied alchemy, magic and the occult. Harkness also studied abroad at Oxford University. She is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College (B.A., 1986), Northwestern University (M.A., 1990), and the University of California, Davis (Ph.D., 1994).

Her latest book is Time's Convert, both an origin story of the trilogy's Marcus Whitmore character, set in the American War of Independence and the French Revolution, and a sequel to the All Souls Trilogy.īorn in 1965, Harkness grew up near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of an American-born father and a British-born mother.

'Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century', Deborah Harkness & Jim Voelkel, Science History Instituteĭeborah Harkness (born 1965) is an American scholar and novelist, best known as an 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. Mount Holyoke College, Northwestern University, University of California at Davis

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