Brenda Barrie, the Official Website

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0518dfc3.jpg"> <bR> <div> <B><IMG SRC="05fb4fa0.jpg" border=0 width="180" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 style=" border-bottom: 1px solid #999980;" BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0528dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <B>Brenda Barrie, the Official Website</B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 width="100%" colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0528dfc3.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="my_writing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Writing"><B>My Writing</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="the_binding.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Binding"><B>The Binding</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="full_speed__full_stop_.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Full Speed. Full Stop."><B>Full Speed. Full Stop.</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="the_rabbi_s_husband.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Rabbis Husband"><B>The Rabbi's Husband</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="reviews___comments.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reviews Comments"><B>Reviews & Comments</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="for_book_clubs.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="For Book Clubs"><B>For Book Clubs</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links"><B>Links</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="coming_appearances.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Appearances"><B>Appearances</B></A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="contact_brenda_barrie.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Me"><B>Contact Me</B></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Sometimes I feel as though</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > I've been writing my entire life, even though I've only become a published poet and novelist in the past few years.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> My first job was writing professionally -- advertising for department stores -- but I've also written newspaper and magazine features, edited newspapers and magazines, and written innumerable news releases and speeches in my roles as community relations director of various Jewish organizations.</div> <bR> <div> My first published novel, <I><B>The Binding</B></I>, grew out of a feature story I wrote for <I>The Winnipeg Tribune</I> in Winnipeg a quarter century ago. I dealt with two men, both sons of Holocaust survivors, and their diametrically opposite responses to their parents' experiences. One became an Orthodox rabbi, while the other married a non-Jewish woman and effectively became a "hidden" Jew.</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Tribune</I> editors, however, felt the subject was still too sensitive 35 years  after the destruction of Nazi Germany and the liberation of the remnants remaining alive in the Nazi killing machine, and the story was "killed."</div> <bR> <div> Out of this material I fashioned the novel I used as my Masters thesis in creative writing and, ultimately, the book published in 2005 by RockWay Press.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Continue with </B><A HREF="my_writing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Writing"><B>My Writing</B></A></div> </td> </tr></table></body>