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 Here, Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens.ĭeborah Harkness has crafted a gripping journey through a world of alchemy, time travel, and magical discoveries, delivering one of the most hotly anticipated novels of the season.Harkness at the 2018 U.S. Now, picking up from A Discovery of Witches’ cliffhanger ending, Shadow of Night plunges Diana and Matthew into Elizabethan London, a world of spies, subterfuge, and a coterie of Matthew’s old friends, the mysterious School of Night that includes Christopher Marlowe and Walter Raleigh. The novel introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and the handsome geneticist and vampire Matthew Clairmont together they found themselves at the center of a supernatural battle over an enchanted manuscript known as Ashmole 782. 'Together we lifted our feet and stepped into the unknown'-the thrilling sequel to the New York Times bestseller A Discovery of Witchesĭeborah Harkness exploded onto the literary scene with her debut novel, A Discovery of Witches, Book One of the magical All Souls Trilogy and an international publishing phenomenon.

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