Tracy Barrett

Tracy Barrett is an American author of children’s books and young adult novels. She has published twenty-three books for young readers and one for adults.

Early life and education Tracy Barrett was born in Cleveland, Ohio, but grew up just outside New York City, New York. She holds a bachelor's degree in classics-archaeology from Brown University and a master's and PhD in Medieval Italian literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career Barrett served as a senior lecturer of Italian language and civilization at Vanderbilt University from 1984 to 2012.

Barrett is best known for her historical young adult novel, Anna of Byzantium, a fictionalized retelling of the life of Princess Anna Comnena in medieval Byzantium.

She is also the author of the Sherlock Files series, which follows the adventures of two young descendants of Holmes as they solve his cold cases.

Selected works Anna of Byzantium, Laurel Leaf, 1999 The Trail of Tears: An American Tragedy, Perfection Learning Corporation, 2000 Cold in Summer, Henry Holt and Co., 2003 On Etruscan Time, Henry Holt and Co., 2005 King of Ithaka, Henry Holt and Co., 2010 Dark of the Moon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011 The Stepsister's Tale, Harlequin Teen, 2014 The Song of Orpheus, CreateSpace, 2016 Marabel and the Book of Fate (Little, 2018) Freefall Summer, Charlesbridge Teen, 2018

The Sherlock Files The 100-Year-Old Secret, Henry Holt and Co., 2008 The Beast of Blackslope, Henry Holt and Co., 2009 The Case that Time Forgot, Henry Holt and Co., 2010 The Missing Heir, Henry Holt and Co., 2011