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Tracy Barrett is the author of numerous books for young readers, including the award-winning biographical novel, Anna of Byzantium (Delacorte, 1999). Her most recent publications are two young-adult novels, Dark of the Moon (Harcourt, 2011), King of Ithaka (Henry Holt, 2010), and the four books in a middle-grade series, The Sherlock Files (Henry Holt). Forthcoming from Harlequin Teen in July, 2014, is The Stepsister’s Tale. Nonfiction includes The Ancient Greek World and The Ancient Chinese World (Oxford University Press).
Tracy was the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators’ Regional Advisor for the Midsouth from 1999 to 2009 and is now SCBWI’s Regional Advisor Coordinator. She was awarded the SCBWI Work-in-Progress Grant in 2005 and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1994.
She holds a B.A. with Honors in Classics from Brown University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Medieval Italian Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. She lives in Nashville, TN, where until recently she taught at Vanderbilt University. Visit her at www.tracybarrett.com.

Tracy Barrett is the author of numerous books for young readers, including the award-winning biographical novel, Anna of Byzantium (Delacorte, 1999). Her most recent publications are two young-adult novels, Dark of the Moon (Harcourt, 2011), King of Ithaka (Henry Holt, 2010), and the four books in a middle-grade series, The Sherlock Files (Henry Holt). Forthcoming from Harlequin Teen in July, 201... More