Joanne Harris
Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author celebrated for fourteen novels, two cookbooks, and numerous short stories.
Her writing spans magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology, and fantasy.
Her 1999 novel Chocolat was adapted into an Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.
She has also written for Doctor Who, scripted for the game Zombies, Run!, and is developing musical theatre and television projects.
An honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, she was awarded an OBE in 2022.
She plays flute and bass guitar, and writes from a shed in her Yorkshire garden.
