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.
Life
Tracy Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up just outside New York CIty, New York.
Notable works
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.
Academic career
Besides an author, Barrett served as a senior lecturer of Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University from 1984 to 2012. She holds degrees from Brown and the University of California, Berkeley.
Bibliography
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
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
External links
Publisher's Author Page*
Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American children's writers Vanderbilt University faculty Brown University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni