Barbara Walsh.

About Barbara Walsh

Barbara Ann Walsh is an American journalist and writer of children's books. She has worked for The Eagle-Tribune, Portland Press Herald, and South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and has taught journalism at Florida International University, University of Southern Maine, and University of Maine at Augusta. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for a series she wrote for the Eagle-Tribune about the Massachusetts prison system. Barbara has also worked as an international speaker for the U.S. Department of State.