Laurell Kaye Hamilton is an American horror writer. She was born in 1963 in Heber Springs, Arkansas, but grew up in Sims, Indiana. Her mother was killed in a car crash in 1969. Today Laurell resides in St. Louis County, Missouri.
Her principal oeuvre is the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. In 2000, she branched out and started the new Merry Gentry series about a fairy princess turned private investigator.
Hamilton's writing is characterized by vivid prose, erotic sensuality, and complex world building. She has gained a certain notoriety for the amount of explicit sex and violence in her novels.
