Nevada Barr
Nevada Barr
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Full Name and Common Aliases
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Nevada Barr is the pen name of author Peggy Sias Ewing. Born in 1952 in Youngstown, Ohio, she adopted the pseudonym Nevada to reflect her connection to the American West.
Birth and Death Dates
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Born on April 1, 1952, there is no information available about her death date.
Nationality and Profession(s)
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American author Nevada Barr has worked as a park ranger, artist, and writer. Her diverse background has influenced her writing style and subject matter.
Early Life and Background
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Growing up in the Midwest, Barr developed an appreciation for nature and the American West. She moved to California to pursue art studies and later joined the National Park Service (NPS) as a park ranger. This experience shaped her perspective on the environment and human relationships with it.
Major Accomplishments
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Nevada Barr's writing career spans over three decades, during which she has published several novels, short stories, and essays.
Her Anna Pigeon series is particularly notable for its blend of mystery, adventure, and environmental themes.
The author has received critical acclaim for her work in various literary genres.Notable Works or Actions
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Some of Barr's most popular works include:
Bitter Medicine (1992), the first novel in the Anna Pigeon series
Blind Descent (2003)
Deep South (2009)
Her writing often explores complex issues, such as environmental degradation and human relationships with nature.
Impact and Legacy
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Nevada Barr's work has left a lasting impact on readers worldwide. Her unique voice and perspective have earned her recognition in various literary communities. As an advocate for the environment, she continues to inspire readers through her writing.
Why They Are Widely Quoted or Remembered
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Barr's contributions to literature are multifaceted:
Environmental awareness: Through her writing, Barr raises important questions about human relationships with nature and the consequences of environmental neglect.
Strong female characters: Her Anna Pigeon series features a complex, independent protagonist who embodies feminist values.
* Literary innovation: Barr's blend of mystery, adventure, and environmental themes has helped redefine the boundaries of literary genres.
Nevada Barr's writing continues to captivate readers worldwide.
Quotes by Nevada Barr
Bureaucrats – monkeys who hear no evil and see no evil – are first in line for promotion.
With the Regional Office breathing down her neck... Corinne had wanted to keep the Drury case low-key, uncontroversial. since Craig’s disappearance had set he alarm bells off, Anna was willing to be she’d change tactics, make a noisy show of taking command of the situation. For a while the name of the game at Guadalupe Mountains would be Cover Your Ass.
Whoever had come up with the chant “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” had been an idiot.
In a world that is becoming increasingly virtual, the parks remain places of visceral beauty. Places where we can remember that we are but a small part of the life on this planet, and that it is a truly wonderful planet and the only one we’ve got.
Part of her soul... gloried in the sheer bodacious unnaturalness of it. Putting a great blue-green water park smack down in the red desert complete with cactus, trading posts, genuine Navajo Indians, and five kinds of rattlesnakes was theater of the absurd at its most outrageous.
She was forty before she realized that when she asked a man what he was thinking and he said, “Nothing,” he wasn’t lying.
For a while they sat without talking. Anna got her daypack and dug out a paperback copy of Ivanhoe. It produced a book’s inevitable effect. In cats it stimulated the urge to sit on the pages. In humans it stimulated conversation.
One cannot be kind in any meaningful way over any length of time without also being good.
Dose it ever amaze and delight you that of all the places in the world – cold grassy nests under hedgerows, warm patches of sun on a carpet – the cat chooses to sit on your lap?