Tracy Barrett
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Tracy Barrett is an American author of children’s books and young adult novels.
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Notable Works [edit]
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]
Academic career [edit]
Besides an author, Barrett is also a senior lecturer of Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University.[3] She holds a degrees from Brown and the University of California, Berkeley, and has taught at Vanderbilt since 1984.[4]
Bibliography [edit]
- Anna of Byzantium, Laurel Leaf, 1999
- 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 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]
- ^ ""Anna of Byzantium", Publishers Weekly,05/03/1999".
- ^ ""THE 100-YEAR-OLD SECRET", Kirkus,05/20/2010".
- ^ "Department of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University".
- ^ ""Italian lecturer does double duty as novelist", Vanderbilt Register,01/02/2006".
