![]() ![]() ![]() Her Aunt Peggy, who taught third grade in the New York City public schools, and her grandmother, a “fighting Quaker Democrat and a globe trotting missionary,” also love mystery and excitement just as Barr does (Rancourt).Īs a teenager, Nevada learned to fly from her mother (Eckels). Her mother and father were both pilots as was her sister Molly, who was an airline pilot for US Air (Rancourt).īarr’s mother, who was a mechanic, carpenter, and one of the first women to be featured in People Magazine, still owns a small ranch on the East side of the Sierras and on the edge of the Smoke Creek Desert (Eckels). Nevada Barr was born in Yerington, Nevada (as she says, “Hence the name”) and grew up in Susanville, California, where her parents, Mary and Dave Barr, ran a little airport. Seeking Enlightenment… Hat by Hat (non-fiction) (2003)īy Kim McCluskey (SHS), 1998, Updated 2015.Destroyer Angel: An Anna Pigeon Novel (2014).Boar Island: An Anna Pigeon Novel (2016). ![]() Nevada Barr, Photo by Tommy Bennett, used with permission ![]()
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