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Rebecca Rego Barry

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Rebecca Rego Barry is the author of "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells" (2024) and "Rare Books Uncovered" (2015). She is an award-winning editor, formerly at Fine Books & Collections magazine, and her writing about books and history has appeared in many publications, including Smithsonian, Atlas Obscura, Lit Hub, CrimeReads, Slate, and The Guardian. She lives with her husband and two daughters in New York's Catskill Mountains, in a home bursting with books. ...more

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Hi Friends,

A quick note to let you know about my forthcoming book, "The Vanishing of Carolyn Wells," which comes out on February 13! (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...)

It's a biographical treatment -- the first ever -- of a once famous, now forgotten mystery author, but there's lots of literary history and book collecting lore folded in.

Here's the elevator pitch: Before Agatha Christie, Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 21, 2023 07:08 • Tags: author-biographies, book-collecting, librarians, vintage-mystery, women-s-biographies

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	Rare Books Uncovered: True Stories of Fantastic Finds in Unlikely Places by Rebecca Rego Barry (Goodreads Author), Nicholas A. Basbanes (Foreword) 3.94 avg rating — 276 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

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Queen of Bohemia Predicts Own Death: Gilded-Age Journalist Zoe Anderson Norris

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The Hroswitha Club and the Impact of Women Book Collectors (Elements in Publishing and Book Culture)

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