Barbara K. Clement

In January 2008, Barbara K. Clement retired from Villanova University to begin a new career, writing novels. She had served as Assistant Vice President/Director of the Office of Communication and Public Affairs since October 1994. Prior to that she lived in Manhattan, where, for 15 years, she was associated with the Estée Lauder Companies, the global cosmetic firm, as their Vice President for Estée Lauder International Public Relations.

Before joining Lauder, Ms. Clement served as Vice President of Corporate Advertising and Creative Services for Leslie Fay Inc., a multifaceted fashion company.

She began her career as an intelligence officer for the US government and went on to become a syndicated columnist for the Newhouse National News Service and Chicago Sun-Times/Daily News Wire Service, working directly for the publishing scion Sam Newhouse and his family. Her lively fashion–lifestyle columns appeared regularly in more than 150 newspapers throughout the United States. She also served as a foreign correspondent for 2 years covering European news for the wire services from a home in Amsterdam and the Condé Nast offices at the Palais du Bourbon in Paris.

As an international public relations/marketing executive and member of the working press, Ms. Clement has traveled extensively. She has lived in Europe and Turkey worked in most European countries as well as Africa, Australia, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Taiwan.

She is married to a son of the Main Line, Charles F. Clement 3^rd, an international banker. They and their four cats share a home in Berwyn, PA.

Main Liners: Legacy of Deceit
by Barbara K. Clement

Although Emmons Harrison Whitley did not anticipate when he would die, he had to know his funeral would be a social event for those on the Main Line. Although publicity typically holds a stigma with Main Liners, this particular funeral was a veritable "who's who" in the social network connecting the old affluent families of this suburban Philadelphia region. What this Main Line patriarch did not realize was that his last wishes would lead to the discovery of long-buried secrets causing family and friends to question who literally is who. A robbery of Whitley's safe shortly after his death sets in motion the unraveling of a tangle of scandalous secrets including murder, robbery, affairs, and lies. Could the truth break apart this family when on the Main Line, family is everything?