Barbara V. Paper is a native of Mobile, Alabama.  After graduating from the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa with a BSEd, she returned home to teach elementary school. Her next position was Director of Religious Education for the Springhill Avenue Temple of Mobile. The author and husband, Paul Paper, raised two lovely daughters. After the deaths of her parents and husband, she moved to Atlanta. During this period Barbara traveled throughout the Southeast providing educational and leadership programs for the Union for Reform Judaism. Now Chattanooga, Tennessee is her home.

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History

Barbara’s interest in writing began to take shape in high school, which led to her choosing to concentrate in college English studies. The development of her first book, Moon Flyers - A Family Memoir: Coping With Mental Illness, began after writing several short stories about her family’s experiences.

Activities

Barbara is a member of the Chattanooga Writers’ Guild and attends bi-monthly meetings of the North Georgia Writers Group. Since completing the book, she continues to write short stories. Because she is dedicated to her craft, Barbara entered two short stories in the 2015 Writers’ Guild Spring Writing Contest and won honorable mention in both categories, fiction and non-fiction.

Reading is important to a writer. She enjoys historical fiction with a little romance thrown into the mix, science fiction, and murder mysteries. Her fourth grade teacher planted the seed of the mystery genre by reading many books of the "Hardy Boys" series. The class looked forward to each after lunch presentation.

In addition to writing, Barbara’s other avocation is genealogy. She is a member of Ancestry.com and has developed extensive records of her family’s history. One branch of her father’s family has roots back to the 1800s in Mobile. Her second great-grandparents’ home in is now Mobile’s Carnival Museum. Henry, Bertha, and Ralph, an essay by Barbara V. Paper, tells about the home and its resident ghost.