Barnet was a regular contributor to the New York Times Book Review for twenty-five years. She wrote primarily on the arts and culture, with a special concentration on biographies of early twentieth-century artistic and literary figures.
Barnet is the author of All Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930, which was a finalist for the 2004 Lambda Literary Awards. She also wrote Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters Changed our World, a finalist work for the 2019 PEN/ Bograd Weld Award for biography.
Her journalism has appeared in the Smithsonian Magazine, the New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and The Toronto Globe and Mail, among other publications.
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