Tracy Barrett
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| Occupation | Author, collegiate lecturer, researcher |
| Alma mater | Brown University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA) (Ph.D) |
| Period | 1999-present |
| Genre | historical fiction, nonfiction, mystery, fantasy |
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Tracy Barrett is an American author of children’s books and young adult novels. She has published twenty-three books for young readers and one for adults.
Early life and education
Tracy Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up just outside New York City, New York. She holds degrees from Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
Barrett served as a senior lecturer of Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University from 1984 to 2012.[1]
Barrett is best known for her historical young adult novel, Anna of Byzantium, a fictionalized retelling of the life of Princess Anna Comnena in medieval Byzantium.[2]
She is also the author of the Sherlock Files series, which follows the adventures of two young descendants of Holmes as they solve his cold cases.[3]
Selected works
- Anna of Byzantium, Laurel Leaf, 1999
- The Trail of Tears: An American Tragedy, Perfection Learning Corporation, 2000
- Cold in Summer, Henry Holt and Co., 2003
- On Etruscan Time, Henry Holt and Co., 2005
- King of Ithaka, Henry Holt and Co., 2010
- Dark of the Moon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011
- The Stepsister's Tale, Harlequin Teen, 2014[4]
- The Song of Orpheus, CreateSpace, 2016
- Marabel and the Book of Fate (Little, 2018)
- Freefall Summer, Charlesbridge Teen, 2018
The Sherlock Files
- The 100-Year-Old Secret, Henry Holt and Co., 2008
- The Beast of Blackslope, Henry Holt and Co., 2009
- The Case that Time Forgot, Henry Holt and Co., 2010
- The Missing Heir, Henry Holt and Co., 2011
References
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Department of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University". Vanderbilt University. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Anna of Byzantium". Publishers Weekly. May 3, 1999.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The 100-Year-Old Secret". Kirkus. May 20, 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."The Stepsister's Tale". Publishers Weekly. May 19, 2014.
External links
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