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Nevada’s first historical book, Bittersweet, was completed in 1984 (Rancourt).

Her motivation for writing was “a desire for women to do more to move along the plot more because all the women I knew were movers and doers.”

Her stay in many different parks serves as the settings for her mystery novels. Her first job was a boat patrol at Isle Royale (Rancourt). It was he who first raised her interest in wildlife conservation. Her first husband was a member of the National Park Service. When she moved to Mississippi, she did commercials for Mississippi Public Broadcasting.īefore she began writing full-time, she became a National Park Service Ranger. After spending five years in New York, Nevada Barr traveled to Minneapolis, and while there she did even more theater work.

She also participated in corporate training films, television commercials, industrial films, radio voice-overs, and regional theater (Eckels). While in New York she was a member of the Classic Stage Company and performed in many off-Broadway plays. After graduate school, Barr spent eighteen years in acting and did voice-overs (Rancourt). Following college, Barr attended graduate school at the University of California at Irvine. She attended college at Cal Polly, San Luis Obispo where she earned a BA in speech and drama and an MFA in Acting. 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.