Phyllis Barber describes her latest memoir, Raw Edges, as "a coming-of-age-in-middle-age story; the account of a bright-eyed young
Mormon couple ([her]self and [her] husband David) who went through an
agonizing process in [their] thirty-three-year marriage, sparked by
differing matters of faith and subsequent infidelity."
Author of How
I Got Cultured, A Nevada Memoir, as well as other fiction titles, Barber was born in Nevada and grew up in Boulder City and Las Vegas. She can
trace her family's Nevada roots to the 1860s. Trained as a classical
pianist, she has served on the Board of Directors for the Utah Symphony, among other achievements.