![]() ![]() ![]() Mellon Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities in her senior year. Francine majored in European History, studying Napoleonic France, and won an Arthur W. There she fenced for the club varsity team and learned to write news stories for The Daily Princetonian – a hobby that led to two part-time jobs as a journalist for The Miami Herald and The San Jose Mercury News. In 1981, she started college at Princeton – one of the most formative experiences of her life. Her father died of a heart attack during her freshman year. She grew up in Washington, D.C., and attended Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, a two hundred year-old Catholic school for girls that shares a wall with Georgetown University. ![]() The family spent their summers on Cape Cod, where two of the Barron girls now live with their families Francine's passion for Nantucket and the New England shoreline dates from her earliest memories. Her father was a retired general in the Air Force, her mother a beautiful woman who loved to dance. Stephanie Barron was born Francine Stephanie Barron in Binghamton, NY in 1963, the last of six girls. Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. ![]()
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