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Author Profile -- Barbara Williams
BORN: Salt Lake City, Utah--before the dinosaurs
PARENTS: Walter Wright (lawyer) Emily Jeremy Wright (homemaker)
SPOUSE: J.D. Williams--professor emeritus and unsuccessful politician
EDUCATION: B.A. and M.A., U of U--also l year of graduate study at Boston
University
PLACES LIVED: Salt Lake, Washington, D.C., Cambridge, MA
POSITIONS HELD: cashier, clerk-typist, doctor's assistant, personnel
assistant, handkerchief salesperson, college English teacher (my favorite
job, but I was laid off when Ph.D.'s became over abundant--sob!)
HOBBIES: travel (which I can no longer afford); cooing at babies
(strangers' or my own grandchildren's)
PHOBIAS: water, heights
IRRITATIONS: bad grammar, temperamental computers
MOST RECENT TITLE: "World War II--Pacific," Lerner, 2005
NEXT TITLE: "Albert's Gift for Grandmother," Candlewick, 2006
MOST SUCCESSFUL TITLE (more than 1 million): "Titanic Crossing,"
Dial, 1995; Scholastic, 1997
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Profile of children's author-- Barbara Williams
This profile first appeared in the UCWI Newsletter
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