Barbara Blake-Krebs

BARBARA BLAKE-KREBS was a broadcast journalist, print journalist, playwright, and community activist, and the author of When Parkinson’s Strikes Early: Voices, Choices, Resources and Treatment, co-written with Linda Herman.

Blake-Krebs held a B.A. in Political Science from Northwestern University and an M.A. in Communications from the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

When she was not writing, Blake-Krebs co-founded KKFI Community Radio 90.1 and worked for peace and justice through organizations including The Future is Now and Rotary International. Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 1984, her work gave direct voice to that experience.

Blake-Krebs was based in Merriam, Kansas, and died in 2005 at age 65.

Barbara Blake-Krebs’s books are published by Hunter House, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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