Barbara Corrado Pope

Personal Information

Full Name:
Pope, Barbara Corrado

Website:
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Home State:
OR

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Contact Info

Publicist at the Publisher :
Jessica jessica@pegasusbooks.us

Personal Publicist :
Peter Handel plhandel@pacbell.net

Publisher's Website :
http://www.pegasusbooks.us/

Author Bio

Barbara Corrado Pope, Ph.D., author of Cézanne’s Quarry, (Pegasus Books, 2008) and The Blood of Lorraine (Pegasus, 2010) is a historian, award winning teacher and the founding director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Oregon. Barbara has traveled and taught history and women’s studies all over the world including Aix-en-Provence, where Cézanne’s Quarry is set.
She fell in love with the art, landscapes and people of Provence and had the pleasure of leading many lecture-tours through Aix-en-Provence, where she followed in Cézanne’s footsteps, from the hidden depths of the Bibémus Quarry to his sunny studio at Les Lauves on the outskirts of town.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Barbara currently resides in Eugene, Oregon where she is completing her second Bernard Martin mystery. The Blood of Lorraine is set in another place she has grown to love, Nancy, France.
You can learn more about both novels by visiting www.barbaracpope.com

Bibliography

	The Blood of Lorraine Author: Barbara Corrado Pope Published: July 20, 2010 by Pegasus Books Series Name: A Bernard Martin Mystery Category: Mystery, Historical Mystery Main Character: Bernard Martin, Clarie Martin, David Singer, Noemie Singer, Simon Shlomo In the wake of the Vernet murders in Aix-en-Provence, Magistrate Bernard Martin moves to the town of Nancy in Lorraine, France, along with his pregnant wife Clarie, who is as fervent about Republican ideals as her husband. They are not in Nancy long when an infant boy is found dead, his tiny body mutilated. The wet nurse and mother say that this was a case of “ritual sacrifice” by a “wandering tinker,” or Jew. Yet as Bernard delves deeper into the different personalities surrounding the case, he struggles to reconcile his Republican Click for more info.

	Cézanne’s Quarry Author: Barbara Corrado Pope Published: June 11, 2008 by Pegasus Books New York, NY Category: Mystery, Historical Mystery Main Character: Paul Cézanne, Solange Vernet, Charles Westbury, Bernard Martin A young woman is found murdered…and the clues to hear death point to her spurned lover, Paul Cézanne. In this richly atmospheric novel, a mysterious young woman named Solange Vernet arrives in Aix-en-Provence with her lover, a Darwinian scholar named Charles Westbury, and a year later is found strangled in a quarry outside the city. The young and inexperienced magistrate, Bernard Martin, finds his investigation caught in the crossfires of a raging cultural debate. Click for more info.