Barbara Wolverton

Bobbi Phelps Wolverton grew up in Darien, Connecticut, forty miles from New York City. She graduated from Pine Manor College (near Boston) and the University of California at Berkeley. She joined the airline industry in 1965 and worked flights from the Orient to Europe, landing in Vietnam war zones and in Egypt during the infamous 6-Day War with Israel. Those adventures are chronicled in BEHIND THE SMILE DURING THE GLAMOUR YEARS OF AVIATION.

Wolverton took a 4-month leave of absence and traveled around the world by herself. Five years later she again went around the world: from Lapland to South Africa, from the British Isles to India, and from Iran to New Zealand. The trip took 18 months: backpacking, photographing, and flyfishing. She rescued a black Labrador from Iran and wrote BLACK EMPRESS as her fourth book. The theme of her sixth book with be about the innocence and dangers of those travels.

Wolverton started the Angler’s Calendar and Catalog Company in 1975. The calendars sold to thirty foreign countries and her business won Exporter of the Year for the State of Idaho (1993 small company category).

Wolverton is a 20-year member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America; an Arnold Gingrich Writing award recipient for her book, FLYFISHING ALWAYS; President of the Authors Guild of Tennessee; and a writer for travel and history articles in THE CONNECTION, a Tennessee newspaper.