Barbara wood biography

Barbara Wood


Born

in Warrington, Lancashire, England, The United Kingdom

January 30, 1947


Website

http://www.barbarawood.com


Genre

Science Fiction & Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Romance


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Barbara Wood was born on 30 January 1947 in Warrington, Lancashire, England, UK. Together with her parents and older brother, she immigrated to the United States. She grew up in Southern California and attended Los Angeles Schools. After High School, Barbara attended the University of California at Santa Barbara but left to train as a surgical technician. During this time, Barbara held numerous jobs, before she sold her first novel in 1976. A few years prior, Barbara met her husband George. To date, Barbara has written 22 books, including two under the pen name Kathryn Harvey, these books are quite different from the Barbara Wood's novels and she, her agent and editor agreed that a pen name would serve to indicate the difference. She is an Barbara Wood was born on 30 January 1947 in Warrington, Lancashire, England, UK. Together with her parents and older brother, she immigrated to the United States. She grew up in Southern California and attended Los Angeles Schools. After High School, Barbara attended the University of California at Santa Barbara but left to train as a surgical technician. During this time, Barbara held numerous jobs, before she sold her first novel in 1976. A few years prior, Barbara met her husband George. To date, Barbara has written 22 books, including two under the pen name Kathryn Harvey, these books are quite different from the Barbara Wood's novels and she, her agent and editor agreed that a pen name would serve to indicate the difference. She is an international best selling author with books translated into over 30 languages. The reader is transported to exotic countries that Barbara has meticulously researched to provide her fans with a true sense of the culture and history relevant to each story. At the heart of eve

Barbara A. Wood is a native of Ohio. She attended school in Toledo and graduated from high school with a scholarship to Traphagen School of Fashion in New York. Her instructors found her work so creative and expressive that they encouraged her to pursue fine arts.

She enrolled and completed her formal studies at the famous Art Students’ League in New York. She later married and moved to Southern California. In an effort to polish her burgeoning technique, she began postgraduate studies at the Otis Art Institute and the Pasadena School of Fine Arts.

Barbara A. Wood is an artist who communicates with the viewer. Fascinated by color, her canvases display an extremely individualistic, figurative style. She says, “Painting, to me, is a joy, a challenge, a fulfillment and a love affair. It is a vehicle for expressing impressions I have drawn from a tangible world, where color is the music of painting.” Her subjects are mostly women who reflect a mood melding folly and the beauty of human drama. Raised by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, the personalities and hardships within each woman became the catalyst for her art. As an only child and quite often bedridden with bouts of pneumonia, Barbara spent most of her time painting alone. While this was a personal obstacle she had to overcome, her imagination was strengthened, designing her friends on canvas.

Internationally known, Barbara has had major one-person shows throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, and London. Her works are part of the collections of numerous celebrities as well as private collections throughout the world. Her paintings are in the collections of His Majesty the King of Saudi Arabia’s Private Office, President George H. W. Bush, Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, Elizabeth Taylor, Hugh Hefner, Jane Seymour, Jerry Lewis, Mickey Rooney, Dick Van Dyke, Dennis Weaver, Art Linkletter, Ron Howard, Gavin MacLeod, and many others.

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    American novelist

    For the English cricketer, see Barbara Wood (cricketer). For the American politician, see Barbara Wood (politician).

    Barbara Wood (born January 30, 1947, in Warrington, Lancashire, England) is an American writer of historicalromance novels. Her family moved to California, where she grew up. In 2002, she received the Corine Literature Prize.

    Bibliography

    As Barbara Wood

    • Hounds and Jackals, 1978
    • The Magdalene Scrolls, 1978
    • Curse this House, 1978
    • Yesterday's Child, 1979
    • Night Trains, 1979
    • Childsong, 1981
    • The Watch Gods, 1981
    • Domina, 1983
    • Vital Signs, 1985
    • Soul Flame, 1987
    • Green City in the Sun, 1988
    • The Gifts of Peace, 1990
    • The Dreaming, 1991
    • Virgins of Paradise, 1993
    • The Prophetess, 1996
    • Perfect Harmony, 1998
    • Sacred Ground, 2001
    • The Blessing Stone, 2003
    • Star of Babylon, 2005
    • The Last Shaman, 2007
    • Woman of a Thousand Secrets, 2008
    • This Golden Land, 2010
    • The Divining, 2012
    • The Serpent and the Staff, 2013
    • Rainbows on the Moon, 2016
    • Land of the Afternoon Sun, 2016

    As Kathryn Harvey

    Filmography

    German TV films

    • Barbara Wood: Herzflimmern (1998, based on Vital Signs)
    • Barbara Wood: Traumzeit [fr] (2001, based on The Dreaming)
    • Barbara Wood: Spiel des Schicksals (2002, based on Hounds and Jackals)
    • Barbara Wood: Lockruf der Vergangenheit (2004, based on Curse this House)
    • Barbara Wood: Das Haus der Harmonie (2005, based on Perfect Harmony)
    • Barbara Wood: Sturmjahre [de] (2007, based on Domina)
    • Barbara Wood: Karibisches Geheimnis (2009, based on Private Entrance)

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