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 Anna Komnene ( gr, Ἄννα Κομνηνή, Ánna Komnēnḗ; 1 December 1083 – 1153), commonly Latinized as Anna Comnena, was a Byzantine princess and author of the ''Alexiad'', an account of the reign of her father, the Byzantine emperor, ...

in medieval

Byzantium Byzantium () or Byzantion ( grc, Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and Istanbul today. The Greek name ''Byzantion'' and its Latinization ''Byzantium'' cont ...

. 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.

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

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Publisher's Author Page
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