Tracy Barrett

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.

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Early life and education

Tracy Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up just outside New York City, New York. She holds degrees from Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Barrett served as a senior lecturer of Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University from 1984 to 2012.
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.
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.

Selected works

Anna of Byzantium, Laurel Leaf, 1999The Trail of Tears: An American Tragedy, Perfection Learning Corporation, 2000Cold in Summer, Henry Holt and Co., 2003On Etruscan Time, Henry Holt and Co., 2005King of Ithaka, Henry Holt and Co., 2010Dark of the Moon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011The Stepsister's Tale, Harlequin Teen, 2014The Song of Orpheus, CreateSpace, 2016Marabel and the Book of Fate Freefall Summer, Charlesbridge Teen, 2018

The Sherlock Files

The 100-Year-Old Secret, Henry Holt and Co., 2008The Beast of Blackslope, Henry Holt and Co., 2009The Case that Time Forgot, Henry Holt and Co., 2010The Missing Heir, Henry Holt and Co., 2011