Barbara Hattemer

Barbara writes novels highlighting difficult subjects, but her books are mingled with delightful descriptions of nature, romance, and deep relationships. Readers say her stories are such pleasurable reading, they don't want them to end. Educated at Smith College and Harvard Business School, Barbara worked for a management consulting firm and rose to Assistant to the President before raising four children. She has written many articles over the years that have been published in magazines and books. Now she is writing fiction. Her first published novel is Field of Daisies, the story of three generations of Alzheimer's. While the romance is pure fiction, the facts about Alzheimer's are taken from her family's experience. She wrote the book to give hope to those, like her, who have Alzheimer's in their families and fear they may be next. Her second novel, An Island Just for Us, is a story of a summer romance on an island in Maine's beautiful Penobscot Bay. As Elena introduces Todd to the delights of the Maine seacoast, they experience a hurricane that hits just when the tide is highest. When they are lost on the bay in a penetrating fog, they realize how important they have become to each other. The book contrasts a solid Christian family and a family that is always unraveling and dealing with crisis. A subplot reveals the harms of pornography and its effect on our nation's youth. Barbara is uniquely gualified to write this book because she fought pornography for 18 years, published a reseach book on the harms of pornography and gave hundreds of interviews on radio and television. The most notable interviews were with Dr. James Dobson's Focus On The Family radio program and with Bryant Gumble on The Today Show. She frequently debated the ACLU on television as well. She was featured in Christian Herald Magazine and Focus on the Family's Citizen and received Christian Herald's first James 1:22 Award for her work in this field. Dr. D. James Kennedy filmed her for two days and aired an hour-long video of her work on his television program. Her readers have begged her to tell what happened to each of her characters. Barbara has now finished a sequel to Island, Can It Ever Be, which will be published soon.