Fanny Barry

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Fanny Barry

A Boston native who turned to writing after breast cancer treatment, this author blends resilience, creativity, and hard-won insight in work that ranges from supportive books for cancer patients to memoir and fiction. She has also published under the name Joanne Barry.

2 Audiobooks

Soap-bubble stories : $b for children

Soap-bubble stories : $b for children

by Fanny Barry

Stories jolly: stories new: stories strange & stories true : $b A series of new and original tales for boys and girls from six to fourteen years old

Stories jolly: stories new: stories strange & stories true : $b A series of new and original tales for boys and girls from six to fourteen years old

by H. C. (Henry Cadwallader) Adams, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne, S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould, Fanny Barry, Frances Clare, Alice Corkran, George Manville Fenn, Agnes Giberne, Mrs. A. M. Goodhart, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty, Katharine S. (Katharine Sarah) Macquoid, Mrs. Molesworth, Helen A. Wilmot-Buxton, Emma Wood, Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

About the author

A native of Boston, Massachusetts, Fanny Barry began writing during and after her breast cancer treatment. Google Books notes that her early illustrated support books grew out of that experience, using writing and drawing as a way to cope and connect with others facing cancer.

Later biographical notes identify her as Joanne Barry writing under the name Fanny Barry. Boston University's Bostonia says she published the novel Eco Woman: The Transformation under that name, and describes a life that evolved from environmental engineer to author based in Tulum, Mexico.

Her published work spans several kinds of writing, including cancer-support books, memoir, and fiction. On her own author site, she describes Map of Life and Beauty as a memoir of self-discovery, survival, and resilience, showing the personal thread that runs through much of her work.