title: Barbara Shapiro
text: # Barbara Shapiro
  
  Barbara Shapiro, or B.A., or Xixi Shapiro, is an American author. Her initial works were published as Barbara Shapiro; her recent novels are styled as authored by B.A. Shapiro.
  
  ## Works
  
  She has written novels, screenplays, and a non-fiction self-help book.
  
  ### Novels
  
  * The Muralist
  * The Art Forger The book is based on the unsolved Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum theft of thirteen works of art.
  * The Safe Room
  * Blind Spot
  * See No Evil
  * Blameless
  * Shattered Echoes
  * The Collector's Apprentice
  * Metropolis
  
  ### Screenplays
  
  * Blind Spot
  * The Lost Coven
  * Borderline
  * Shattered Echoes
  
  ### Non-fiction book
  
  * The Big Squeeze: Balancing the Needs of Aging Parents, Dependent Children, and You (1991)
  
  ## Awards
  
  Shapiro received the 2013 New England Book Award for Fiction, a 2013 Massachusetts Must-Read Book award, and a 2012 Boston Globe Best Crime Book award. She was nominated for a 2013 Massachusetts Book Award.
  
  