Barbara Hambly
 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 man of color a musician and physician in New Orleans in the antebellum years. She also wrote a novel about Mary Todd Lincoln.Her science fiction novels occur within an explicit multiverse as well as within previously existing settings (notably Star Trek and Star Wars).