Community Corner
Meet the Author: Lisa Barr, FUGITIVE COLORS
International journalist and
Chicagoan Lisa Barr will be autographing copies of her award-winning historical
fiction novel Fugitive Colors
at the BookMarket (Barbara’s Bookstore) at the
Glen, 2651 Navy Blvd., Glenview, Illinois on Wednesday, October 16th, 2013
at 7pm (phone 847-904-7304).
Lisa Barr’s debut novel Fugitive Colors (www.fugitivecolorsthenovel.com)
won first prize at the Hollywood Film Festival for “Best Unpublished
Manuscript” and is being launched in October by Arcade Publishing. Fugitive
Colors is a suspenseful tale of an artist’s revenge during World War
II. Julian Klein, a young American artist, leaves behind his religious
upbringing for the artistic freedom of Paris in the 1930’s, only to find
himself trapped inside a world in which a paintbrush is far more lethal than a
gun.
A
journalist for 20 years, Lisa served as an editor for five years at The Jerusalem
Post in Israel, and managing editor of Moment Magazine and Today’s
Chicago Woman. Most recently she served as a staff reporter for the Chicago
Sun-Times. Her work ranges from covering terrorism and politics to
celebrities, lifestyle, sex and relationships. In addition, she's contributed
to numerous publications worldwide. She earned her master’s degree from the
Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University and currently lives in the
Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, with her husband and three teenage
daughters. Lisa Barr is also the creator and blogger of the popular website
“GIRLilla Warfare: A Mom’s Guide to Surviving the Suburban Jungle”
(www.girlillawarfare.com)
launched in May 2012.
