Barbara Sjoholm

writer

Barbara Sjoholm was born in Long Beach, California, but has spent most of her adult life in the Pacific Northwest and Europe. She now lives in Port Townsend, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington. As a novelist, memoirist, translator, and mystery writer, Barbara Sjoholm has been both prolific and innovative. Many readers know her as Barbara Wilson, author of two successful, offbeat mystery series: one with Pam Nilsen, *A Printer in Seattle*, and a second with Cassandra Reilly, an *American Translator of Spanish*, based in London. These mysteries have sold over 100,000 copies and are translated into five languages. They cross boundaries in making feminist and social issues part of the plot. Gaudi Afternoon, set in Barcelona, was awarded a British Crime Writers' award and a Lambda Literary Award. In 2001, a film of *Gaudi Afternoon* was released, with Judy Davis in the title role of Cassandra Reilly and Marcia Gay Harden as Frankie. Barbara has also published several collections of short stories and three novels.