Patricia Barber lives with her husband in western Maryland. She was born in what is now Zimbabwe and came to the United States in 1979 to attend graduate school. After receiving a master degree in communications from The American University in Washington, DC, she worked for a decade as the Washington correspondent for the Sunday Times, a large weekly newspaper in South Africa. In 1990, Harper & Row published The Land & People of Zimbabwe, a young adult book written under her maiden name, Patricia Cheney. After a period as a stay-at-home and homeschooling mom, she worked as a professional fundraiser, public relations consultant, speechwriter, and ghostwriter.Read Full Biography
