She is most known for her coming of age story Titanic Crossing, which became a best-seller and won a Mark Twain Readers Award in 1998.
[1] Barbara Williams was born January 1, 1925, in Salt Lake City, Utah,[2] daughter of Walter Wright.
Six years later, in 1952, they moved back to Salt Lake City, where her husband founded the Hinckley Institute of Politics.
After moving back to her home town, she worked as a teacher in the University of Utah for twelve years.
In 1952, the two created a group with six other promising writers from Salt Lake City, which remained active for 16 years.