Brunonia Barry (1950 in

Salem, Massachusetts Salem ( ) is a historic coastal city in Essex County, Massachusetts, located on the North Shore of Greater Boston. Continuous settlement by Europeans began in 1626 with English colonists. Salem would become one of the most significant seaports tr ...

) is the author of ''

The Lace Reader ''The Lace Reader'' (2006) is a novel by Brunonia Barry. The novel is set in Salem, Massachusetts, the American town famous for the Salem witch trials. A crucial plot device is the Ipswich lace that the protagonist's family would make. The nov ...

'' and '' The Map of True Places''. Her third novel, '' The Fifth Petal: a novel'', was published on January 24, 2017. Barry, with husband Gary Ward, founded SmartGames, a game and puzzle software company.

Biography

Born in

in 1950, Sandra Brunonia Barry grew up in neighboring Marblehead She went to Green Mountain College in Vermont and to the

University of New Hampshire The University of New Hampshire (UNH) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Durham, New Hampshire. It was founded and incorporated in 1866 as a land grant college in Hanover in connection with Dartmouth College, m ...

. After a few years of trying to live on option money as a screenwriter, she turned to computers, working for several years in the sales and marketing division of Lotus Development Corp. In 2006, after writing it for six years, she and Ward self-published ''The Lace Reader,'' which utilized Ipswich lace as a plot device. Eventually the rights were sold to William Morrow for over 2 million dollars. Her second book, ''The Map of True Places'', was published in 2010. She currently lives in Salem, Massachusetts. In 2017 she worked with the North Shore YMCA to co-write a play about opioid use in the region.

Selected bibliography

* ''

'', William Morrow, 2006 * '' The Map of True Places'', William Morrow, 2010 * '' The Fifth Petal'',

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, 2017

Awards

* The International Women's Fiction Festival's Baccante Award * Ragdale Artists' Colony's Strnad Fellowship * New England Book Festival's award for Best Fiction * Amazon's Best of the Month

External links

Author's webpage

References

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