Charlaine Harris is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing for thirty years.hough her early works consisted largely of poems about ghosts and teenage angst, she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. She switched to novels a few years later, and achieved publication in 1981 with Sweet and Deadly.Sookie Stackhouse has proven to be so popular that Alan Ball,produced a new HBO series based upon the books True Blood.. Harris is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, the American Crime Writers League, Sisters in Crime, and the International Crime Writers Association. She is a member of Sisters in Crime and MWA, and MWA.,Science Fiction Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and RWA,