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An author is narrowly defined as the originator of any written ___MASK34___ and can thus also be described as a writer ( with any distinction primarily being an implication that an author is a writer of one or more major works , such as books or plays ). More broadly defined , an author is " the person who originated or gave existence to anything " and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created . The more specific ___MASK10___ published author refers to an author ( especially but not necessarily of books ) whose ___MASK34___ has been independently accepted for ___MASK8___ by a reputable publisher , versus a self - publishing author or an unpublished one . Tennessee (" Tanasi ") is a ___MASK2___ located in the southeastern region of the United States . Tennessee is the 36th largest and the 16th most populous of the 50 United States . Tennessee is bordered by Kentucky and Virginia to the north , North Carolina to the east , Georgia , Alabama , and Mississippi to the south , and Arkansas and Missouri to the west . The Appalachian Mountains dominate the eastern ___MASK65___ of the ___MASK2___ , and the Mississippi ___MASK15___ forms the ___MASK2___ ' s western border . Tennessee ' s capital and second largest city is Nashville , which has a population of 654 , 610 . Memphis is the ___MASK2___ ' s largest city , with a population of 655 , 770 . Charlaine Harris Schulz ( born ___MASK97___ ___MASK4___ , 1951 ) is an American " New York Times " bestselling author who has been writing mysteries for thirty years . She was born and raised in the Mississippi ___MASK15___ Delta area of the United States . She now lives in southern Arkansas with her husband and three children . Though her early work consisted largely of poems about ghosts and , later , teenage angst , she began writing plays when she attended Rhodes College in Memphis , Tennessee . She began to write books a few years later . Her later books have been in the urban fantasy genre . She is best known for " The Southern Vampire Mysteries " series , which HBO later adapted for its dramatic series entitled " True Blood ". ___MASK17___ ___MASK28___ Office ( HBO ) is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company ___MASK17___ ___MASK28___ Office , Inc . Programming featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released ___MASK76___ pictures and original television series , along with made - for - cable movies and documentaries , boxing matches , and occasional stand - up comedy and concert specials . True Blood is an American dark fantasy horror ___MASK94___ series produced and created by Alan Ball . It is based on " The Southern Vampire Mysteries " series of novels by Charlaine Harris , detailing the co - existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps , a fictional small town in northwestern Louisiana . The series centers on the adventures of Sookie Stackhouse ( Anna Paquin ), a telepathic waitress with an otherworldly ___MASK27___ . The Mississippi ___MASK15___ Delta region is a 3 - million - acre ( 12 , 000 km ) area of land that stretches from Vermillion ___MASK91___ on the west , to the Chandeleur Islands in the Gulf of Mexico on the southeastern coast of Louisiana . It is part of the Louisiana coastal plain , one of the largest areas of coastal wetlands in the United States . The Mississippi ___MASK15___ Delta is the 7th largest river delta on Earth ( USGS ) and is an important coastal region for the United States , containing more than 2 . 7 million acres of coastal wetlands ( and 37 % of the estuarine marsh in the conterminous U . S . he coastal area is the nation  s largest drainage basin and drains about 41 % of the contiguous United States into the Gulf of Mexico at an average rate of 470 , 000 cubic feet per second . Urban fantasy is a subgenre of fantasy defined by place ; the fantastic ___MASK22___ has an urban setting . Urban fantasy exists on one side of a spectrum , opposite high fantasy , which is set in an entirely fictitious world . Many urban fantasies are set in contemporary times and contain supernatural elements . However , the stories can take place in historical , modern , or futuristic periods . The prerequisite is that they must be primarily set in a city . Grave Sight is the first of four novels in The Harper Connelly Mysteries by American mystery author Charlaine Harris . Harper Connelly , the central character of the novel , has the ability to sense the location and last memories of dead people , a result of being struck by lightning as a young teenager . In Grave Sight , Harper Connelly and her protective stepbrother , Tolliver Lang , help find the whereabouts and condition of a missing teenage girl in a small ___MASK71___ in the Ozark mountains , only to encounter a complex ___MASK54___ of lies and murders . In 2011 - 2012 , Grave Sight was adapted into graphic novel format by Dynamite Comics in three volumes . The script listed William Harms as co - writer and featured art by Denis Medri . The graphic novels were 64 pages long and sold for $ 7 . 99 each . The third volume contained an interview with Charlaine Harris as a bonus feature . The Southern ___MASK13___ Mysteries , also known as The True Blood Novels and The Sookie Stackhouse Novels , is a series of books written by bestselling author Charlaine Harris . The first installment , " Dead Until Dark " ( 2001 ), won the Anthony ___MASK81___ for Best Paperback Mystery in 2001 and later served as the source material for the HBO ___MASK36___ series " True Blood " ( 2008  2014 ). The ___MASK53___ series has been retronymed the True Blood Series upon reprinting , to capitalize on the television adaptation . Rhodes ___MASK95___ is a private , predominantly undergraduate , liberal arts ___MASK95___ located in Memphis , Tennessee . Formerly affiliated with the Presbyterian Church ( USA ), Rhodes is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and enrolls approximately 2 , 000 students . Arkansas is a ___MASK2___ located in the southeastern region of the United States . Its name is of Siouan ___MASK33___ from the language of the Osage denoting their related ___MASK30___ , the Quapaw Indians . The ___MASK2___ ' s diverse geography ranges from the mountainous regions of the Ozark and the Ouachita Mountains , which make up the U . S . Interior Highlands , to the densely forested land in the south known as the Arkansas Timberlands , to the eastern lowlands along the Mississippi ___MASK15___ and the Arkansas Delta . Mississippi is a ___MASK2___ in the southern region of the United States , with ___MASK65___ of its southern ___MASK93___ formed by the Gulf of Mexico . Its western ___MASK93___ is formed by the Mississippi ___MASK15___ .