Jasper Fforde
Three separate interviews in which Jasper Fforde discusses the Thursday Next series, his Nursery Crime novels and Shades of Grey, the first in a trilogy set in a future world recognizable as our own - but only just.
Abraham Verghese
An interview with Abraham Verghese about his life and writing and in particular about his extraordinary 2009 novel Cutting for Stone, set in 1960s and '70s Ethiopia and 1980s New York.
Martha A Sandweiss
An interview with Martha Sandweiss in which she discusses her book Passing Strange, a biography of Clarence King who lived a double life—as the celebrated white explorer, geologist, and writer Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter named James Todd, married to Ada with whom he had five children.
Amy Greene
Amy Greene talks about her first novel, Bloodroot, which brings her native Appalachia—and the faith and fury of its people—to rich and vivid life.
"Nevada Barr has carved out her own fictional fiefdom, creating a body of
work like no other," the San Diego Union Tribune remarked in 1996 upon
the publication of the fifth book in Barr’s acclaimed series featuring
National Park Service Ranger Anna Pigeon. Since the 1993 publication of the
first Anna Pigeon novel, Track of the Cat, which was awarded both the
Anthony Award for Best First Novel by The Crime Writers Association and the
Agatha Award for Best First Novel by Malice Domestic, Barr has earned a
reputation as a talented and much admired writer. As the Chicago Tribune
said, "Nevada Barr is a park ranger who can write up a storm."
The daughter of two pilots, Barr bears the name of the state in which she was
born. She grew up at a little mountain airport in Johnsonville, California.
After attending college at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and completing her graduate
studies at the University of California at Irvine, she moved to New York City to
pursue a career in theater. She stayed there for five years, as a member of the
Classic Stage Company, performing in Off-Broadway shows.
From New York, Barr went to Minneapolis, where she tried her hand at more
theater work, landed some spots on television commercials, and worked on
industrial films, among other things. Her former husband was involved in the
Park Service, which inspired her interest in wildlife and conservation, and eventually led to the profession that until
recently she shared with her main character: National Park Service Ranger.
When she felt she could afford to, Barr began to work summers at various
parks, and spent her winters pursuing a career in writing. She published her
first novel, Bittersweet, in 1984, but it was during her tour of duty in
Guadalupe Mountains in Texas, that Barr conceived of the Anna Pigeon character
and began the series with her critically acclaimed, award-winning debut, Track
of the Cat, in 1993. She then followed up with eight more novels set in
various National Parks: A Superior Death (1994) set in Mesa Verde
National Park in Colorado; Ill Wind (1995) set in Isle Royal National
Park in Michigan; Firestorm (1996), which was awarded France’s Prix du
Roman d’Adventure and nominated for Anthony Award for Best Novel, set in
Lassen Volcanic National Park in California; Endangered Species (1997)
set in Georgia’s Cumberland Island National Seashore; Blind Descent
(1998) set in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico; Liberty Falling
(1999) set at Liberty and Ellis Islands in New York City, Deep South
(2000), set in the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi, Blood Lure (2001) set in the Waterton National Peace Park in Montana and Canada.
Hunting Season, published in February 2002, is
set in the Natchez Trace Parkway; Flashback, published in February 2003 is set in Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small group of islands 70 miles off Key West.
Nevada Barr lives with her husband in Clinton, Mississippi.
This biography was last updated on 02/01/2003.
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