| Brunonia Barry | |
| Birth Place: | Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Occupation: | Novelist |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novels set in Salem |
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Brunonia Barry (born 1950 in Salem, Massachusetts) is the author of The Lace Reader and The Map of True Places.[1] Her third novel, , was published on January 24, 2017.[2] [3] Barry, with husband Gary Ward, founded SmartGames, a game and puzzle software company.
Born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1950, Sandra Brunonia Barry grew up in neighboring Marblehead[4] She went to Green Mountain College in Vermont and to the University of New Hampshire. After a few years of trying to live on option money as a screenwriter, she turned to computers, working for several years in the sales and marketing division of Lotus Development Corp.[5] In 2006, after writing it for six years, she and Ward self-published The Lace Reader, which utilized Ipswich lace as a plot device. Eventually the rights were sold to William Morrow for over 2 million dollars.[6] Her second book, The Map of True Places, was published in 2010. She currently lives in Salem, Massachusetts.
In 2017 she worked with the North Shore YMCA to co-write a play about opioid use in the region.[7]