Barbara Shollar was an American education consultant, editor, and activist. For some time, she also taught writing at the

Queens College Queens College (QC) is a public college in the Queens borough of New York City. It is part of the City University of New York system. Its 80-acre campus is primarily located in Flushing, Queens. It has a student body representing more than 170 ...

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. With Marian Arkin, she had edited several books on tutoring, and also the Longman Anthology of World literature by women (1989). For her PhD, she worked on the immigrant woman's autobiographical tradition. On December 24, 2004, she was shot dead by her longtime life partner Helen Chumbley in the backyard of their home in Yonkers.

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