Nevada Barr

Nevada Barr (born March 1,1952, Yerington, Nevada) is a mystery fiction author, known for her "Anna Pigeon" series of mysteries, set in National Parks in the United States.

She was named after the state of her birth. She grew up in Johnsonville, California . She finished college at the University of California, Irvine. Originally, Barr started to pursue a career in theatre, but decided to be a park ranger.

She published her first novel, Bittersweet, in 1984. Bittersweet is a bleak historical novel set in the days of the Western frontier.

While she worked as a ranger in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, she created the Anna Pigeon character and started the Anna Pigeon series. The Anna Pigeon character is a law enforcement officer with the United States National Park Service. Each book in the series takes place in a different National Park, where Pigeon solves a murder mystery, often related to natural resource issues.

The Anna Pigeon mystery series includes:

Title	National Park	Publication Date
Track of the Cat	Guadalupe Mountains NP	1993
A Superior Death	Isle Royale NP	1994
Ill Wind	Mesa Verde NP	1995
Firestorm	Mount Lassen NP	1996
Endangered Species	Cumberland Island National Seashore	1997
Blind Descent	Carlsbad Caverns NP	1998
Libery Falling	Statue of Liberty	1999
Deep South	Natchez Trace Parkway	2000
Blood Lure	Glacier NP	2001
Hunting Season	Natchez Trace Parkway	2002
Flashback	Dry Tortugas NP	2003
High Country	Yosemite NP	2004