“In 2018, I was brainstorming ways that a normal teenage girl could become famous overnight, and one of the ideas I came up with was ‘a billionaire leaves her his fortune,’ ” Barnes says. Nearly a decade later, the idea became the premise for Barnes’ latest young adult novel, The Inheritance Games. The author of more than a dozen young adult novels, she says, “I sat with this idea for years. “I thought a lot about the kind of man who would build what I, at the time, called the ‘puzzle house,’ and the one thing I knew was that he would love mysteries and games,” says Barnes, a University of Oklahoma associate professor who serves a dual appointment with the OU Department of Psychology and the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication’s professional writing program. Jennifer Lynn Barnes, an OU professor of creative writing and psychology, is the author of The Inheritance Games, which made the New York Times’ young adult best seller list in 2020.
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