Nevada Barr
Autor de Track of the Cat
Sobre El Autor
Nevada Barr was born on March 1, 1952. She is the author of a series of mysteries involving national parks. She draws on her own experience as a National Park Service ranger to thrill readers with the majesty of nature. Anna Pigeon, the heroine of such novels as A Superior Death and Endangered mostrar más Species, is a rough-and-tough ranger who left the wilds of New York for the great outdoors, and is modeled after Barr. Barr began writing in 1978, garnering national attention with the publication in 1993 of Track of the Cat, which won both the Agatha and Anthony awards for Best First Mystery Novel. Her novels are known for breathtaking descriptions of nature, diverse settings, and a no-nonsense heroine. She also provides frequently unflattering portrayals of the National Park Service. Her works include 13 1/2, Winterstudy, Borderline, Burn, The Rope and Destroyer Angel. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Signing books at the 2006 Bouchercon World Mystery Convention in Madison, Wisconsin / Photo by Oldbeeg
Series
Obras de Nevada Barr
Summer and Smoke and Murder 10 copias
Hunting Season (Author Unknown) 3 copias
Anna Pigeon 2 copias
Anna Pigeon 2, 7, 12 1 copia
A Superior Death (An Anna Pigeon Novel) by Barr, Nevada(September 2, 2003) Mass Market Paperback 1 copia
The Lure 1 copia
Calling Invisible Women 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Malice Domestic 8: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 49 copias
The Ordinary Spaceman: From Boyhood Dreams to Astronaut (2015) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones — 49 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Barr, Nevada
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1952-03-01
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Yerington, Nevada, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- San Francisco, California, USA
Yerington, Nevada, USA (birth)
New York, New York, USA
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Johnstonville, California, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Educación
- University of California, Irvine (MA)
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (BA) - Ocupaciones
- park ranger
actor
mystery writer - Premios y honores
- Agatha Award (1993)
Anthony Award (1994)
Barry Award (2001)
Robin W. Winks Award (2011) - Agente
- Dominick Abel (Dominick Abel Agency)
- Biografía breve
- Nevada Barr is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National Parks in the United States. She grew up in Johnsonville, California. In 1984 she published her first novel, Bittersweet, a bleak lesbian historical novel set in the days of the Western frontier.
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- Obras
- 46
- También por
- 11
- Miembros
- 22,366
- Popularidad
- #950
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 754
- ISBNs
- 528
- Idiomas
- 7
- Favorito
- 66
The quiet beauty of autumn on Mississippi’s Natchez Trace is swiftly shattered when Anna answers a call to Mt. Locust, once a working plantation and inn, now a tourist spot. But the man Anna finds in an old bedroom is no tourist in distress. He’s nearly naked, and very dead—his body bearing marks consistent with sex games gone awry. On a writing table nearby is an open Bible with ominous passages circled in red.
There are secrets that prominent men in this God-fearing country wish to keep under wraps—and Anna has stumbled into a nest of them.… (más)