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Barbara Ann Quinlan

Season 2, Ep. 3

Season 2 of our Book Realities series of interviews with independent authors, where we discuss their books, their writing methods and what inspired them to be writers in the first place.


Barbara Ann Quinlan was, by her own admission, the archetype "wild child" in her teens and early adulthood. Romantically linked to Zohar Argov, widely known in Israel as 'The king of Mizrahi music', she also rubbed shoulders with Elizabeth Taylor, Rod Steiger and many more of Hollywood's elite.


An actress, trained by world-famous theater director, Jerzy Grotowski, at his Theater Laboratory in Wroclaw, Poland, Barbara also studied Kathakali, No and Kabuki Theater, ancient Chinese resonator techniques for the voice, Thai Chi and Chi Gong, among countless other exercises aimed at breaking down one’s resistances in order to develop the actor as an uberman,


After many years studying Chi Gong, she became a Chi Master and for the next 20 years had a successful career as a massage therapist, uniquely incorporating Chi Gong to do energy healing.


Having lived in Paris, she has traveled extensively including long stays in Israel, (holding dual citizenship with Israel and the United States).


With a life story as remarkable as hers, there's a good reason it took three volumes to document it. The Love Seeker trilogy is a tour de force of a force of nature.

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