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
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.
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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.
