Barbara Dana is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults. Her books include Zucchini, Zucchini Out West, Crazy Eights, Necessary Parties, Rutgers and the Water Snouts, and Spencer and his Friends. An actress as well as a writer, Ms. Dana has appeared in several films on television and on the stage. It was while playing the starring role in a production of Joan of Lorraine that she felt the need to tell Joan’s story. Young Joan was the result. Ms. Dana lives in South Salem, New York, with her yellow lab, Riley. She has three sons.
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'My life came in two pieces of time. There was the time before I heard the voice, and then there was the time after.' Before she became the legendary Joan of Arc, the child Joan lived the simple life of a farm girl in the village of Domr├®my in Fran... SEE MORE