Barbara Bergmann

Barbara Bergmann lives in Claremont, California, a small college-town east of Los Angeles that is known as the City of Trees and Ph.Ds. As a young person, fiction and public television sparked her interest in Britain; but it was an extended residency in London that established the personal connection that created a bona fide Anglophile. In time, the expository writing she employed throughout her career in institutions of Higher Education segued to storytelling. Counterpoint, her deeply researched debut novel, views 19th century Britain through the lens of social class and sexual politics. A love of classical music and grand opera led her to incorporate both in this complex story of tragedy, self-recrimination, and acceptance.