Barbara Bamberger Scott grew up in North Carolina, where she now makes her home in the semi-fictional town of Mayberry. She has traveled the world, living and working in Botswana, Kenya, the Dominican Republic, England, Sweden and Spain, with five trips to India to visit sites associated with spiritual master Meher Baba.
 
Back in the US apparently forever, she continues to roam whenever possible, taking long road trips with her husband, Donnie "Dobro" Scott, with whom she co-authored TWO LANE TRAVELING (Booksurge, 2009).
 
For work, she chooses any human services job she can get at the time, which has included small-scale gardening in the Third World, composing project newsletters, facilitating services for people with developmental disabilities, acting as a Spanish interpreter in various medical projects, and, most recently, assisting clients in a Joblink in rural Carolina counties.
 
Her great love, writer-wise, is short pieces, including hundreds of book reviews (mostly nonfiction "with a human face") and a series of articles about simple living and the heart of gardening, which appears on www.homestead.org. She runs the website www.awomanswrite.com, a perennial novel-writing competition for aspiring female pensmiths that underscores her talents as an editor, particularly for beginning authors. A Woman's Write has made it possible for her to communicate with and assist women all over the world.

Books by Barbara Bamberger Scott

Generous Fruits: A Survey of American Homesteading

by Barbara Bamberger Scott - History, Nonfiction

In GENEROUS FRUITS, the first comprehensive chronicle of American homesteading from earliest settlement to the current day, author Barbara Bamberger Scott quickly establishes her voice as a passionate urban homesteader and accomplished writer. Scott’s personal, "I’ve-been-there" approach to the subject --- its roots and branches, its past and future --- targets both the avid practitioner and the armchair philosopher.