Tracy Barrett

Tracy Barrett
Tracy Barrett
	Barrett in 2025
Born	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Education	Brown University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA) (Ph.D)
Occupations	Author, collegiate lecturer, researcher
	Writing career
Period	1999-present
Genres	historical fiction, nonfiction, mystery, fantasy
Notable works	Anna of Byzantium; The Sherlock Files;
Website	tracybarrett.com

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.

Early life and education

Tracy Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up just outside New York City, New York. She holds a bachelor's degree in classics-archaeology from Brown University and a master's and PhD in Medieval Italian literature from 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, 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

↑ "Department of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University". Vanderbilt University. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012.
↑ "Anna of Byzantium". Publishers Weekly. May 3, 1999.
↑ "The 100-Year-Old Secret". Kirkus. May 20, 2010.
↑ "The Stepsister's Tale". Publishers Weekly. May 19, 2014.

External links

[1] "Department of French and Italian, Vanderbilt University". Vanderbilt University. Archived from the original on July 31, 2012.

[2] "Anna of Byzantium". Publishers Weekly. May 3, 1999.

[3] "The 100-Year-Old Secret". Kirkus. May 20, 2010.

[4] "The Stepsister's Tale". Publishers Weekly. May 19, 2014.

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF GND WorldCat
National	United States France BnF data Japan Netherlands Korea
Other	IdRef Yale LUX