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My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, t...

Deborah Harkness

My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, t...

Tags: cool, fun, thought, dinner

...empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world.(interview from USC)

Deborah Harkness

...empathy is the most important power there is. Without it, we are doomed. With it, we can truly change the world.(interview from USC)

Tags: change the world, empathy, inspirational, power

About Author
Deborah Harkness (born 1965) is an American scholar and novelist, best known as a 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. Her latest book is Time's Convert: A Novel, 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.

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A...

Deborah Harkness

I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A...

Tags: love, reading, generation

Elizabeth Kostova’s 2005 blockbuster, The Historian,

Deborah Harkness

Elizabeth Kostova’s 2005 blockbuster, The Historian,

I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe.

Deborah Harkness

I had been in 1590 for less than twenty-four hours, but I was already heartily sick of Christopher Marlowe.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. —PHILIPPE DE CLERMONT, OFTEN ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES DARWIN

Deborah Harkness

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. —PHILIPPE DE CLERMONT, OFTEN ATTRIBUTED TO CHARLES DARWIN

Some swore he was a maid in man's attire,For in his looks were all that men desire, A pleasant smiling cheeke, a speaking eye,A brow for loveto banquet roiallye,And such as knew he was a man would say...

Deborah Harkness

Some swore he was a maid in man's attire,For in his looks were all that men desire, A pleasant smiling cheeke, a speaking eye,A brow for loveto banquet roiallye,And such as knew he was a man would say...