Bari Wood

Bari Wood (b. 1946) is an American author of science fiction, crime and horror novels. She was born in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1946, grew up in and around Chicago, and graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in English. She moved to New York in 1967, where she first worked in the library of the American Cancer Society. In the early 1970s she began writing fiction. She wrote her first novel, The Killing Gift, in 1975. Her 1977 novel, Twins, was adapted into a film under the title Dead Ringers with Jeremy Irons in the lead role. Bari Wood