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Meet the Author: Lisa Barr, FUGITIVE COLORS

International journalist Lisa Barr will be autographing copies of her
award-winning historical fiction novel Fugitive Colors at BARNES
& NOBLE, 1542 Northern Boulevard, Manhasset, New York on Tuesday, October
1st at 7 pm (phone 516-365-6723).



Lisa Barr’s debut novel FUGITIVE COLORS (www.fugitivecolorsthenovel.com)
won first prize at the Hollywood Film Festival for “Best Unpublished
Manuscript” and is being launched in October by Arcade Publishing. Fugitive
Colors
is a suspenseful tale of an artist’s revenge during World War II. Julian
Klein, a young American artist, leaves behind his religious upbringing for the
artistic freedom of Paris in the 1930’s, only to find himself trapped inside a
world in which a paintbrush is far more lethal than a gun



A journalist for 20 years, Lisa served as an editor for five years at The
Jerusalem Post
in Israel, and managing editor of Moment Magazine and
Today’s Chicago Woman. Most recently she served as a staff reporter for
the Chicago Sun-Times. Her work ranges from covering terrorism and politics
to celebrities, lifestyle, sex and relationships. In addition, she's
contributed to numerous publications worldwide. She earned her master’s degree
from the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University and currently
lives in the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, with her husband and three
teenage daughters. Lisa Barr is also the creator and blogger of the popular
website “GIRLilla Warfare
: A Mom’s Guide to Surviving the Suburban
Jungle
” (www.girlillawarfare.com)
launched in May 2012.

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