{"name": "Barbara Hambly", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Barbara Hambly (born August 28, 1951) is an American novelist and screenwriter within the genres of fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and historical fiction. She has a bestselling mystery series featuring a free man of color, a musician and physician, in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln.\r\n\r\nHer science fiction novels occur within an explicit multiverse, as well as within previously existing settings (notably as established by Star Trek and Star Wars)."}, "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "birth_date": "28 August 1951", "photos": [11139558], "remote_ids": {"wikidata": "Q288198", "viaf": "85366831", "isni": "0000000081610193", "bookbrainz": "962fc492-e159-467a-8778-42fda3415d5b", "musicbrainz": "e458d8bb-e1b3-495f-a25e-519fb1e0f204", "goodreads": "10333", "imdb": "nm1628287", "lc_naf": "n82014848"}, "personal_name": "Barbara Hambly", "source_records": ["amazon:1799922197", "bwb:9781847519863", "bwb:9781448310319"], "key": "/authors/OL33124A", "latest_revision": 12, "revision": 12, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-07-31T21:47:52.486718"}}