Barbara Shollar

Barbara Shollar was an American education consultant, editor, and activist. For some time, she also taught writing at the Queens College, CUNY. With Marian Arkin, she had edited several books on tutoring, and also the Longman Anthology of World literature by women (1989). For her PhD, she worked on the immigrant woman's autobiographical tradition.

On December 24, 2004, she was shot dead by her longtime life partner Helen Chumbley in the backyard of their home in Yonkers.