Deborah HarknessSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Deborah Harkness is a professor of history and teaches European history and the history of science at the University of Southern California. She has published two works of historical non-fiction, "John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala," "Alchemy and the End of Nature" and "The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution."

In 2011, Harkness published her first work of fiction, "A Discovery of Witches." 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. The novel debuted at No. 2 on The New York Times Best Seller hardcover fiction list, and has been sold in at least 34 countries.

The second novel in the series, Shadow of Night, was published a year later, becoming a No. 1 success on The New York Times Best Seller list. The third novel in the series is called "The Book of Life." The book won Best Fantasy of 2014 in the GoodReads Choice Awards.