Harrison's father and brother did not convert, and this caused a rift in the household. ![]() When Harrison was nine years old, she and her mother were converted by a Jehovah's Witness missionary who visited the family. The turmoil of her childhood would have a strong influence on her writing. Near the end of her life Harrison also claimed that her father had sexually abused her. Her mother, who apparently suffered from mental illness, was emotionally distant and insisted on describing herself as "Barbara's relative", not her mother. She later described her childhood as deeply troubled. ![]() Her parents were first-generation Americans her grandparents were immigrants from Calabria in Southern Italy.
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