Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley, England, United Kingdom on July 3rd, 1964 and is the Novelist. At the age of 60, Joanne Harris biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Joanne Michèle Harris, an English author best known for her book Chocolat (1999), which was adapted the following year for the film Chocolat.
Early life
Harris was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, to an English father and a French mother. Both of her parents were teachers of modern languages and literature at a local grammar school. Her first language was French, causing divisions between her English family, where nobody spoke French, and her French family, where nobody spoke English. Both families had turbulent histories and a tradition of strong women, cooking, folklore, and cookery.
Career
Harris began writing at an early age. She was heavily inspired by Grimms' Fairy Tales and Charles Perrault's work, as well as local folklore and Norse mythology. She was educated at Wakefield Girls' High School, Barnsley Sixth Form College, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where she studied modern and mediaeval languages.
She began teaching modern languages at Leeds Grammar School, a boys' independent school in Yorkshire, after a single, unsuccessful year as an accountant, which she describes as "being trapped in a Terry Gilliam movie." She also lectured at Sheffield University, teaching on topics of French literature and film. During this time, she worked on a number of book projects; The Evil Seed, Sleep, Pale Sister, and Chocolat were all published; although she was still teaching.
The Evil Seed, her first book, was released in 1989 but it met with limited success. Sleep, Pale Sister, her second book, demonstrates how her style developed from horror-pastiche to literary ghost story. Chocolat, a deeply romantic modern folk-tale set in France's Gers region, debuted at number one on the Sunday Times' bestseller list in 1999. In 1999, the book was nominated for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award. David Brown's film rights were sold to David Brown and then produced by Miramax Pictures. Harris' success in the motion picture, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, earned Harris worldwide fame, and she was one of only four female members of the "Millionaires Club," the exclusive group of writers to have achieved more than a million sales of a single book in the United Kingdom since records were established.
Harris' books have been best sellers in the United Kingdom since Chocolat. Her wide range of subject matter means that her research often defies categorization, and she has a preference for difficult or challenging topics. She has written three more books in the Chocolat series, including Vianne Rocher's biography; The Girl With No Shadow in the United States); and Peaches for Monsieur Le Curé (co-written with Fran Warde), three collections of short stories, and a handful of dark psychological thrillers, including Gentlemen and Players, Different Class, and Blueeyedboy, were among Vianne Rocher's "Peaches for Father Francis in the United States).
Runemarks, a mythpunk/fantasy book based on Norse mythology, was released in August 2007. The sequel, Runelight, was published in 2011, and since then the Rune books have gained a devoted fanbase, as well as Vianne Rocher's followers. The Gospel of Loki was released in February 2014, following Norse mythology's theme, with The Testament of Loki coming out in 2017. From the point of view of Loki the trickster, these books continue the tale of Asgard's ascension and fall.
Why Willows Weep – an anthology that supports the Woodland Trust – she wrote a short story in 2011. This is just one of the many stories she has written for charity anthologies.
A Pocketful of Crows, The Blue Salt Road, and Orfeia are three of Child's Ballads' illustrated books, and she has produced a series of original fairytales illustrated by Charles Vess in 2021, a series of original fairytales. She has also written three cookbooks.
She is the current Chair of the Society of Authors and serves on the Board of the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society.
She is a supporter of Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and Plan UK, and she has travelled to Togo and to Congo to report on their work. In Writing on the Edge, a collection of essays by notable literary writers with photographs by Tom Craig in 2010, an account of her visit to the Congo was published. She has also contributed short stories for inclusion in anthologies published by a variety of charities, including Piggybank Kids, the Woodland Trust, the Stop Climate Chaos Alliance, and Breast Cancer UK. Harris appeared on BBC's Desert Island Discs in 2021 and spoke openly about her breast cancer diagnosis and ongoing treatment. She also suffers from seasonal affective disorder.
Harris, who works from a shed in her back garden, wanted to buy it as her high-end Desert Island Discs item. She is married and has a son Fred, who was born in 2022 as a transgender man. She and her partner, Kevin, live in Yorkshire.