Erin Barrett

Erin Barrett was born in 1968. She grew up in South East Asia. She attended Samford University and has a BA in Humanities from the New College of California.^[1] Currently she lives in Fremont, California.

She and her ex-husband Jack Mingo are co-founders and co-writers of the Ask Jeeves series of trivia books which published selected "questions as they flowed, unedited, into the well-known Web site".^[2] They were relied upon by game shows such as Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?^[3] and have generated over 30,000 trivia questions for online games.^[4] Barrett has a decade of work within the wine industry.^[5]

On February 27, 2004, Barrett appeared as one of the Three Wise Men, a lifeline introduced in the U.S., on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.

• Just Curious, Jeeves: What Are the 1001 Most Intriguing Questions Asked on the Internet? (2000) ISBN 193010801X
• Just Curious About History, Jeeves (2002) ISBN 0743427092
• Just Curious About Animals and Nature, Jeeves (2002) ISBN 0743427106
• Doctors Killed George Washington: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Medicine (2002) ISBN 1573247197
• Not Another Apple for the Teacher: Hundreds of Fascinating Facts from the World of Education (2002) ISBN 1573247235
• Random Kinds Of Factness: 1001(or So) Absolutely True Tidbits About (Mostly) Everything (2005) ISBN 1573242128
• Just Curious about Science, Jeeves (2003) ISBN 0743427114
• It Takes a Certain Type to be a Writer: Facts from the World of Writing and Publishing (2003) ISBN 1573247227
• W. C. Privy's Original Bathroom Companion (2003) ISBN 031228750X
• Cause of Death: A Perfect Little Guide to What Kills Us (2009) ISBN 1416554793