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Ann Barry was a freelance writer as well as an editor at the New York Times and the New Yorker. She was born in St. Louis and graduated from St. Louis University. In 1967 Miss Barry started as an editorial assistant at the New Yorker Magazine then moved to the New York Times in 1975. She lived in Brooklyn and died of cancer in February, 1996 at the age of 53.
Miss Barry bought and renovated a home in the Dordogne region of France. She could only spend two or three weeks a year at that home but she wrote of her experiences and love of that home in "At Home in France: Tales of an American and Her House Abroad". The book was published posthumously.