Joanne Harris

Joanne Harris is a British author best known for Chocolat, her 1999 novel that was adapted into a film. Born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, to a French mother and a British father, she taught French for fifteen years before the book's success let her write full time. Since then she has written more than 30 books, including The Girl with No Shadow, Blackberry Wine and Five Quarters of the Orange, often returning to folklore, food and outsiders.