Author Meet-and-Greet: Ellen Barker on "Nothing North of Delmar"

Alumna Ellen Barker, AB ’76, is back on campus for her 50th reunion and will be at the Danforth Campus Bookstore for a signing of her latest novel, Nothing North of Delmar. This is the first book in a new St. Louis-based series about Novelle, a WashU economics graduate student who loves problem sets—until she discovers a segregationist plot right in her backyard. Now she wants to do something about it.

About the Author

Like the main character of her book, Ellen Barker lived in the Delmar Loop while attending WashU in the late '70s. Before life as an author, Ellen worked as an urban planner with East-West Gateway in St. Louis, later moving to California. She has published three earlier novels: East of Troost, Still Needs Work, and The Breaks, all set in Kansas City, MO. She and husband Tom Shoup, MA '77, PhD '81, a physics alumnus, live in Los Altos. They love WashU and visit often.