# Barbara Holland

Barbara Murray Holland (April 5, 1933 – September 7, 2010) was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. == Early life == She was born on April 5, 1933, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Chevy Chase, Md. Her parents divorced when she was a child and her mother later married Thomas Holland, whom she strongly disliked, later writing that My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers ... Fathers were angry; it was their job.