- Barbara Gregorich
- http://www.barbaragregorich.com
- http://barbaragregorich.wordpress.com@fwords
- Barbara Gregorich writes fiction, nonfiction, and poetry for adults and for children. Her first novel She’s on First was called “the best book that’s written on the idea of the first woman to play professional baseball,” and was reviewed by Sara Paretsky on the front page of the Chicago Tribune sports section. Her nonfiction title, Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball, was featured in the Sunday New York Times and won the SABR-Macmillan Award for Best Baseball Research of the Year. In 2013 the book was included in Ron Kaplan’s 501 Baseball Books Fans Must Read Before They Die, and in 2017 Francis Ford Coppola, when asked by The New York Times Book Review which book readers would be surprised to find on his shelf, replied: “Women at Play: The Story of Women in Baseball, by Barbara Gregorich.” In the world of children’s literature Gregorich is the author of more than 150 educational activity books. As freelance editor/writer at School Zone Publishing she wrote eighteen Start to Read books and developed and wrote their Read and Think series. She has written BrainQuest cards for Workman Publishing as well as their BrainQuest Workbook Grade 4. Gregorich’s Houghton early reader, Waltur Buys a Pig in a Poke and Other Stories received excellent reviews in Kirkus, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal and was named Book of the Week by the Cooperative Children’s Book Center. This was followed by Waltur Paints Himself into a Corner and Other Stories, which also received very positive reviews. Gregorich turns many of her book topics into public presentations for libraries and schools. Her presentations are consistently featured in Illinois library “Best of the Best” listings. Among these presentations are “Mountain Passes in American History”; “When Women Played Hardball: The Story of Margaret, Nellie, and Rose”; and “How I Found Maud Nelson Before the Internet Existed.” In 2013 Gregorich was honored by the Illinois Humanities Council, which selected her as a Road Scholar for her program “Margaret, Nellie, and Rose: When Women Played Baseball.” Barbara traveled to many Illinois communities to present this program. In 2019 she was selected as one of the six inaugural inductees into her high school’s Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. She lives in Chicago with her husband Phil Passen, a musician, and blogs about her duties and adventures as “Roadie.” When not writing and not working as Roadie, she’s either reading a book, weaving a basket, or attending a baseball game. Having explored the world of women baseball players, Gregorich has now turned to writing fiction with a socialist content. The F Words, her first YA novel, will be published by City of Light Publishing in 2021. It deals with the issues of freedom to protest, student rights, and immigrant rights.
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