working as a park ranger and having had a husband who worked in the theater in New York City. Barr became a full-time writer when her books began to achieve commercial success. She began painting in 1996, added to her writing, and her work in the National Park Service. She moved to New Orleans after her third marriage to Donald Paxton and now lives in Oregon. Personal life While in her acting career, Barr had a brief first marriage.They were both in theatre. Her husband developed an interest in the physical environment and took a position in the National Park Service.This sparked a similar interest in Barr. She followed him and secured a position as a seasonal ranger at Isle Royal National Park. She then worked as a seasonal ranger at Guadaloupe Mts and then Mesa Verde. When her marriage ended she returned home to her mother in California.In 1994 she got a permanent position as a Park Ranger on the Natchez Trace Parkway in Mississippi. She was the first female law enforcement ranger to work on the Parkway. She met her second husband,a second generation Park Ranger also working on The Trace. By this time she'd successfully started her Anna Pigeon mystery series based on a female Park Ranger and set in National Parks. Her husband took an early retiremnt in 1996 and shortly after, Nevada resigned her position to write full time. With her husband assisting in research and acting as her personal assistant, she published a book a year until their divorce in 2006. Shortly after she remarried and moved to New Orleans and continued to write and paint. She now lives in Oregon with her husband. Bibliography Anna Pigeon series 1993 Track of the Cat ()Guadalupe Mountains National Park 1994 A Superior Death ()Isle Royale National Park 1995 Ill Wind ()Mesa Verde National Park 1996 Firestorm ()Lassen Volcanic National Park 1997 Endangered Species ()Cumberland Island National Seashore 1998 Blind Descent ()Carlsbad Caverns National Park 1999 Liberty Falling ()Statue of Liberty National Monument 2000 Deep South ()Natchez Trace Parkway 2001 Blood Lure ()Glacier National Park 2002 Hunting Season ()Natchez Trace Parkway 2003 Flashback ()Dry Tortugas National Park 2004 High Country ()Yosemite National Park 2005 Hard Truth ()Rocky Mountain National Park 2008 Winter Study ()Isle Royale National Park 2009 Borderline ()Big Bend National Park 2010 Burn ()New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park 2012 The Rope ()Glen Canyon National