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Nevada Barr

Born

in Yerington, Nevada, The United States

March 01, 1952

Website

http://www.nevadabarr.com/

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Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

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Nevada Barr is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National Parks in the United States. Barr has won an Agatha Award for best first novel for Track of the Cat.

Barr was named after the state of her birth. She grew up in Johnstonville, California. She finished college at the University of California, Irvine. Originally, Barr started to pursue a career in theatre, but decided to be a park ranger. In 1984 she published her first novel, Bittersweet, a bleak lesbian historical novel set in the days of the Western frontier.

While working in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Barr created the Anna Pigeon series. Pigeon is a law enforcement officer with the United States National Park Service. Each book i ...more

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Average rating: 3.87 · 200,047 ratings · 16,931 reviews · 66 distinct works • Similar authors

	Track of the Cat (Anna Pigeon, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 22,715 ratings — published 1993 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Superior Death (Anna Pigeon, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 13,097 ratings — published 1994 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blind Descent (Anna Pigeon, #6) 4.05 avg rating — 11,538 ratings — published 1998 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ill Wind (Anna Pigeon, #3) 3.93 avg rating — 11,178 ratings — published 1995 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Firestorm (Anna Pigeon, #4) 4.02 avg rating — 10,416 ratings — published 1996 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	High Country (Anna Pigeon, #12) 3.92 avg rating — 9,504 ratings — published 2004 — 56 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winter Study (Anna Pigeon, #14) 3.87 avg rating — 9,440 ratings — published 2008 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deep South (Anna Pigeon, #8) 3.97 avg rating — 9,198 ratings — published 2000 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Borderline (Anna Pigeon, #15) 3.94 avg rating — 8,758 ratings — published 2009 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rope (Anna Pigeon, #17) 3.88 avg rating — 8,688 ratings — published 2012 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“perhaps love was like the mumps. If a woman came down with it after forty, it could kill her”
― Nevada Barr, 13½

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“Anna remembered her fifth grade teacher, Mr. White, telling her that hatred wasn't the worst of emotions. If one hated, one still cared. Indifference was the most inhuman.”
― Nevada Barr, Endangered Species

tags: inspirational

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“Deliberately, she took a long drink. It wasn't as good as she remembered, but then little was. She caught herself in that thought and was ashamed. Cynicism was okay, bitterness a pain in the neck. The hairline difference between the two was hope and humor. The cynic had both, the embittered, nothing.”
― Nevada Barr

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