![]() Harris started writing at a young age, being strongly influenced by Charles Perrault’s work and Grimms’ Fairy Tales, as well as Norse mythology and local folklore. She is Anglo-French, and she writes diverse things, covering aspects of suspense, magic realism, mythology, historical fiction, and fantasy. Both sides of her family had turbulent histories and a tradition for the women to be strong, storytelling, cookery, folklore, and kitchen gardening. The first language she learned was French, causing a divide between her English family, as no one spoke French, and the French family, where there were no English speakers. ![]() Author Joanne Harris was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire in the year 1964 to her French mom and English dad, and her parents were teachers of modern literature and languages at a grammar school. ![]()
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