Since the early ’70s Barbara Caruso has performed hundreds of audiobooks. Active in both the worlds of commercial audiobooks and Library of Congress Talking Books, Barbara has been celebrated by both camps. She received the Alexander Scourby Award for her performances of young adult literature from the American Foundation for the Blind. Barbara notes how much she appreciates receiving letters from sight-impaired listeners, “because I know my voice is a particular kind of lifeline.” She has garnered 15 AudioFile Earphones Awards for works by several authors, including Joyce Carol Oates and Jill Ker Conway. Her engaging voice captures characters as various as the Italian workmen of UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN and the Dublin caterer in SCARLET FEATHER. In Tom Brokaw’s recent ALBUM OF MEMORIES Barbara was the voice of many of the WWII-era letters. She has a clear knack for portraying the emotional side of characters who are young or old, contemporary or historical—even futuristic in the case of Piers Anthony. And in the nonfiction realm of natural science, Barbara offered a splendid performance of WAITING FOR APHRODITE by Sue Hubbell.--2002 Narrator Yearbook

Barbara Caruso