Tracy Barrett

Tracy Barrett
Born	Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Author, collegiate lecturer, researcher
Alma mater	Brown University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA) (Ph.D)
Period	1999-present
Genre	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.

Tracy Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up just outside New York CIty, New York.

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Barrett served as a senior lecturer of Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University from 1984 to 2012.^[3] She holds degrees from Brown and the University of California, Berkeley.

• 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^[4]
• The Song of Orpheus, CreateSpace, 2016
• Marabel and the Book of Fate (Little, 2018)
• Freefall Summer, Charlesbridge Teen, 2018

• 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

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