Tracy Barrett | |
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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.
Tracy Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up just outside New York CIty, New York.
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.[1]
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.[2]
Besides an author, Barrett served as a senior lecturer of Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University from 1984 to 2012.[3] She holds degrees from Brown and the University of California, Berkeley.
