The international bestselling author of the All Souls series, Deborah Harkness draws on her expertise as a historian of science, medicine, and the history of the book to create rich narratives steeped in magical realism and deeply human questions about what it is that makes us who we are.

The first book in her All Souls series, A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, was an instant NYT bestseller and the series expanded with subsequent bestsellers, SHADOW OF NIGHT, THE BOOK OF LIFE, and TIME'S CONVERT, and the companion reader, THE WORLD OF ALL SOULS. The tv adaptation of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES was released in 2019 by Sky/Sundance Now.

Deborah Harkness holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College, Northwestern University, and the University of California at Davis. She's a professor at the University of Southern California, where she teaches European history and the history of science.