USC Dornsife News

Bestselling author and historian Deborah Harkness says good-bye to the All Souls Trilogy with her final installment, The Book of Life, and gears up to teach a new seminar on public history.

Writing fiction gives Deborah Harkness license to explore where her inner historian would not dare to tread.

USC Dornsife’s Deborah Harkness is recognized as a “Woman of Influence” by her undergraduate alma mater, Mount Holyoke College, for using her education to inspire and lead.

As a researcher, USC College's Deborah Harkness studies science and magic of the early modern period. As a novelist, she explores the hidden world of modern-day witches, vampires and daemons in her first work of fiction, A Discovery of Witches.