Deborah Harkness ' `` All Souls Trilogy '' has sold more than a million copies . Harkness : In the Spring , I will be teaching a seminar on queens , witches and courtesans -- women and power in early Modern Europe . Harkness is a history professor at the University of Southern California . `` The Book of Life '' came out July 15 . It's about an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was born in Memphis, Egypt and died there.
Deborah Harkness ' `` All Souls Trilogy '' has sold more than a million copies . Harkness is a history professor at the University of Southern California . `` The Book of Life '' came out July 15 . It's about an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was born in Memphis, Egypt and died there.