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Meet the Author: Lisa Barr, FUGITIVE COLORS

International journalist and Deerfield resident Lisa Barr will be

autographing copies of her award-winning historical fiction novel Fugitive

Colors
at Barnes & Noble, 728 N. Waukegan Rd.  Deerfield, Illinois,  (847)914-9293.

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at the Hollywood Film Festival for “Best Unpublished Manuscript” and is being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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