Barbara Foster, Associate Professor at CUNY, has published many articles on travel and over 200 poems in journals in various countries. Barbara has presented dozens of slide shows on the life of Alexandra David-Neel from Washington’s Smithsonian to Cal Tech, Sidney, Buenos Aires and Prague.

With husband Michael Foster, she wrote the widely translated "THE SECRETS LIVES OF ALEXANDRA DAVID-NEEL: A Biography of the Explorer of Tibet and Its Forbidden Practices" (Overlook Press, third edition 2008). It was chosen as “one of the best all-time books” by The New York Review of Books. Other joint publications of the Fosters include "A Dangerous Woman: The Life, Loves and Scandals of Adah Isaacs Menken" (Globe Pequot 2011).