Stephanie Barron

Stephanie Barron is the pen name of author Francine Mathews. She was born in 1963 in Binghamton, New York and is an author of mystery fiction as well as historical mysteries. She has been featured as one of the Great Women Mystery Writers. She grew up in Washington D.C. and was the youngest daughter out of five older siblings, all sisters. She did graduate from Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School and followed that up by earning a degree in European History from Princeton University. At Princeton she wrote for the newspaper at the university and later landed jobs with the papers of The Miami Herald and the San Jose Mercury News. She then went on to graduate from Stanford University with a masters degree in history.