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| Born | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| 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
[edit]Tracy Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up just outside New York City, New York. She holds a bachelor's degree in classics-archaeology from Brown University and a master's and PhD in Medieval Italian literature from the University of California, Berkeley.
Career
[edit]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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ↑ "Department of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University". Vanderbilt University. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012.
- ↑ "Anna of Byzantium". Publishers Weekly. May 3, 1999.
- ↑ "The 100-Year-Old Secret". Kirkus. May 20, 2010.
- ↑ "The Stepsister's Tale". Publishers Weekly. May 19, 2014.
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