Martha Barnette
| Martha Barnette | |
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November 18, 1957 Louisville, Kentucky |
| Occupation | Author, radio personality, radio producer |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Bachelor of Arts (with honors) in English |
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| Relatives | Henlee Hulix Barnette (father) |
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Martha Barnette (born November 18, 1957) is an American writer, radio presenter and public speaker. She is the co-host and co-producer of A Way with Words, a weekly, hour-long show about language broadcast nationally in the United States, and is the author of four books, three of them about etymology.
Barnette was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Helen and Henlee Hulix Barnette. Her father was a Baptist minister and professor of Christian ethics and her mother a teacher. After attending Stetson University and Vanderbilt University, she graduated from Vassar College with a bachelor's degree in English in 1981. She subsequently did graduate work in classical languages at the University of Kentucky and studied Spanish at the ILISA Language Institute in Costa Rica.
After college, Barnette worked as a journalist at The Washington Times, The Louisville Times and The Courier-Journal in Louisville. In the mid 1980s she wrote several stories for the Washington Times about cardiac surgeon William DeVries, the first person to implant a whole artificial heart intended to be permanent, and in particular his second patient, Bill Schroeder and the Schroeder family. After Schroeder's death in August 1986, Barnette suggested the idea of a book about the story to his family. They worked with Barnette on the book, which was published in July 1987 as The Bill Schroeder Story: An Artificial Heart Patient's Historic Ordeal and the Amazing Family Effort that Supported Him. A Chicago Tribune review described the idea of the book as a "good one" but felt the execution to be "a bit indulgent", while the Courier-Journal described it as "straightforward but highly evocative".
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