About ...
Barbara Golder is a late literary bloomer. Although she’s always loved books
(and rivals Jane in the 3-deep-on-the-shelf sweepstakes), her paying career
gravitated to medicine and law. She has served as a hospital pathologist,
forensic pathologist, and laboratory director. Her work in forensic pathology
prompted her to get a law degree, which she put to good use as a malpractice
attorney and in a boutique practice of medical law, which allowed her to be a
stay-at-home mom when her children were young. She has also tried her hand
at medical politics, serving as an officer in her state medical association;
lobbying at a state and national level on medical issues, writing and lecturing for
hire, including a memorable gig teaching nutritionists about the joys of chocolate
for 8 straight hours, teaching middle and high school science, and, most
recently, working for a large disability insurance company from which she is now
retired.
Her writing career began when she authored a handbook of forensic medicine
for the local medical examiner office in 1984. Over the years she wrote
extensively on law and medicine and lectured on medicolegal topics. On a lark,
she entered a contest sponsored by the Telluride Times Journal and ended up
with a regular humor column that memorialized the vagaries of second-home
living on the Western Slope.
She currently lives on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee with two dogs, two cats and
her husband of 41 years.