Background
Barbara Snow Gilbert was born on April 9, 1954, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
Colorado College
University of Texas at Austin
(An insightful and thought-provoking look at assisted suic...)
An insightful and thought-provoking look at assisted suicide from the perspective of a 15-year-old boy. An insightful and thought-provoking look at assisted suicide from the perspective of a 15-year-old boy.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1886910111/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(At seventeen, Clara Lorenzo seems to have everything--bra...)
At seventeen, Clara Lorenzo seems to have everything--brains, beauty, and an extraordinary talent for the piano. Her parents have provided her with the finest teacher and rearranged their lives to nurture Clara's genius, and Clara has worked hard--to the point of obsession--to develop her talent. But Clara's many gifts and her obsessive practicing have hidden the truth, a truth so startling that it takes an important piano competition, the confusions of first love, and a mysterious Russian folktale for Clara to begin to understand. By the time she fully sees her predicament, events have taken on a powerful momentum of their own. Winner of the Oklahoma Book Award, Broken Chords is a romance acted out in the highly charged world of an internationally renowned piano competition. Told with suspense, artistry, and an appreciation of the ever-tightening pressures that hold Clara captive, Barbara Snow Gilbert weaves the themes of self-awareness, family bonds, and courage in a classic coming-of-age story that is as lyrical as the music at its heart. At seventeen, Clara Lorenzo seems to have everything--brains, beauty, and an extraordinary talent for the piano. Her parents have provided her with the finest teacher and rearranged their lives to nurture Clara's genius, and Clara has worked hard--to the point of obsession--to develop her talent. But Clara's many gifts and her obsessive practicing have hidden the truth, a truth so startling that it takes an important piano competition, the confusions of first love, and a mysterious Russian folktale for Clara to begin to understand. By the time she fully sees her predicament, events have taken on a powerful momentum of their own. Winner of the Oklahoma Book Award, Broken Chords is a romance acted out in the highly charged world of an internationally renowned piano competition. Told with suspense, artistry, and an appreciation of the ever-tightening pressures that hold Clara captive, Barbara Snow Gilbert weaves the themes of self-awareness, family bonds, and courage in a classic coming-of-age story that is as lyrical as the music at its heart.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1886910235/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(A powerful story about a boy’s confrontation with identit...)
A powerful story about a boy’s confrontation with identity, trust, betrayal, and survival. A powerful story about a boy’s confrontation with identity, trust, betrayal, and survival.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1886910448/?tag=2022091-20
2000
Barbara Snow Gilbert was born on April 9, 1954, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States.
Gilbert graduated from Colorado College with a bachelor's degree (magna cum laude) in 1976 and obtained a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979.
Gilbert has been an attorney in private practice, based in Oklahoma City since 1980. She was also a mediator of Oklahoma City during the period from 1994 to 2001 and worked on various political staffs, including that of the Speaker of the House of the U.S. Representatives.
Since 2001, Gilbert holds the position of a law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma and also works as a freelance writer.
(At seventeen, Clara Lorenzo seems to have everything--bra...)
1998(An insightful and thought-provoking look at assisted suic...)
1996(A powerful story about a boy’s confrontation with identit...)
2000Gilbert is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, Oklahoma Bar Association, Phi Beta Kappa and Kappa Alpha Theta.
Gilbert is married and has two daughters.