Teresa H. Barker

Teresa H. Barker is a veteran journalist and book writer who has worked as a feature, general-news, and beat reporter covering health, education, legal affairs, and family issues. Her journalism career included positions or regular contributions at the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Time, Advertising Age, and several regional newspapers. She graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in 1979, where she edited the university newspaper.

Barker has collaborated on books including The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life and It’s a Boy!: Understanding Your Son’s Development from Birth to Age 18, both written with psychologist Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D. Her other collaborations include Raising Cain, Speaking of Boys, Girls Will Be Girls, The Soul of Money, and In the Moment. She is the mother of three children and lives in Illinois.