Nevada Barr
author profile
born
March 01, 1952
gender
female
place of birth
Yerington, Nevada, The United States
website
genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
about this author
Nevada Barr is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National Parks in the United States. Barr has won an Agatha Award for best first novel for Track of the Cat.
Barr was named after the state of her birth. She grew up in Johnstonville, California. She finished college at the University of California, Irvine. Originally, Barr started to pursue a career in theatre, but decided to be a park ranger. In 1984 she published her first novel, Bittersweet, a bleak lesbian historical novel set in the days of the Western frontier.
While working in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Barr created the Anna Pigeon series. Pigeon is a law enforcement officer with the United States ...more
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Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon Mysteries #1) by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.68 — 718 ratings — published 1994 10 editions |
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Blind Descent:: An Anna Pigeon Mystery by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.94 — 634 ratings — published 1998 6 editions |
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A Superior Death by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.78 — 642 ratings — published 1994 5 editions |
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Firestorm by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.90 — 609 ratings — published 1996 10 editions |
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Deep South by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.79 — 618 ratings — published 2001 4 editions |
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Winter Study (Anna Pigeon, book 14) by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.58 — 626 ratings — published 2008 7 editions |
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High Country by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.78 — 580 ratings — published 2004 13 editions |
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Blood Lure by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.71 — 586 ratings — published 2001 7 editions |
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Liberty Falling by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.64 — 530 ratings — published 1999 4 editions |
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Ill Wind by Nevada Barr avg rating 3.73 — 510 ratings — published 1995 10 editions |
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"'Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that thought and was ashamed. Cynicism was okay, bitterness a pain in the neck. The hairline difference between the two was hope and humor. The cynic had both, the embittered, nothing."
— Nevada Barr
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