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Barbara Sjoholm

About the Author

Barbara Sjoholm is the author of The Pirate Queen, a finalist for the PEN USA award in creative nonfiction. Her essays and travel journalism have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, Smithsonian, American Scholar, Antioch Review, Harvard Review, and many other publications. As Barbara Wilson, she is the author of the prize-winning memoir Blue Windows, and of numerous mysteries and other fiction, including Gaudi Afternoon, which was made into a film, and won a British Crime Writers Award. She lives in Seattle.

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