Deborah Harkness
Author of A Discovery of Witches
About the Author
Deborah Harkness was born in 1965. She received a B. A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1986, a M. A. from Northwestern University in 1990, and a Ph. D. from the University of California at Davis in 1994. She is a professor of history at the University of Southern California. Harkness is a show more well-regarded historian of science and medicine, specializing in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Her first novel, A Discovery of Witches, was published in 2011. She is the author of the All Souls Trilogy. In 2006, she began a wine blog entitled, Good Wine Under $20. It provides an online record of her search for the best, most affordable wines. She made The New York Times Bestseller List with The Book of Life and Shadow of Night. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Deborah Harkness
The World of All Souls: The Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night, and The Book of Life (2018) — Author — 286 copies, 5 reviews
A Discovery of Witches: Series 1-3 7 copies
A Discovery of Witches: Series 1-2 — Executive Producer — 3 copies
Diana Bishop's Commonplace Book 2 copies
Your Heart Belongs to Me 1 copy
Otkrivanje vjestica 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1965-04-05
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Places of residence
- Horsham, Pennsylvania, USA
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
London, England, UK
Davis, California, USA
San Marino, California, USA - Education
- Mount Holyoke College (BA|Renaissance Studies)
Northwestern University (MA|Tudor-Stuart History)
University of California at Davis (PhD|Early Modern Europe/History of Science)
Oxford University - Occupations
- professor
author
Professor of history at the University of Southern California
scholar
novelist
historian (show all 7)
executive producer - Organizations
- Colgate University
University of California, Davis
University of Southern California
Renaissance Society of America
North American Conference on British Studies
American Historical Association (show all 7)
Writers Guild of America - Awards and honors
- John Ben Snow Prize (British Studies)
Pfizer Prize (History of Science)
Highly Commended, Longman/History Today Prize - Agent
- Sam Stoloff (Frances Goldin)
Rich Green (CAA)
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Reviews
Time's convert by Deborah E. Harkness
A background tale in search of some narrative tension.
Great concept and well-written. Harkness does fall into the trap of flooding the reader with extraneous details about surroundings, unnecessary characters, and minutiae but it's not enough to turn me away from the story.
2.5 stars. There was way too much trying to happen here, and I don't think many of the threads were successfully pulled together in the end. This was the only book in the series I've read, which was my mistake. I didn't realize this was a series until I was too far into the book to quit. I think the characters were really promising, and the lore is interesting, but the pacing and side quests were just nonsense.
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Statistics
- Works
- 22
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 25,578
- Popularity
- #816
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 1,206
- ISBNs
- 243
- Languages
- 20
- Favorited
- 70
