Brunonia Barry

Brunonia Barry (born 1950 in Salem, Massachusetts) is an American novelist, the author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places. Her third novel, The Fifth Petal: a novel, was published on January 24, 2017. Barry, with husband Gary Ward, founded SmartGames, a game and puzzle software company. She went to Green Mountain College in Vermont and to the University of New Hampshire. In 2006, after writing it for six years, she and Ward self-published The Lace Reader, which utilized Ipswich lace as a plot device. Eventually the rights were sold to William Morrow for over 2 million dollars. Her second book, The Map of True Places, was published in 2010.

Selected bibliography The Lace Reader, William Morrow, 2006 The Map of True Places, William Morrow, 2010 The Fifth Petal, Crown, 2017

Awards The International Women's Fiction Festival's Baccante Award Ragdale Artists' Colony's Strnad Fellowship New England Book Festival's award for Best Fiction Amazon's Best of the Month