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| birth_place = Hartford Connecticut , U.S. | death_date = November 2014 (aged 70) | death_place = | education = University of Pennsylvania; Yale University; University of Paris at the Sorbonne| occupation = Writer, educator, fashion model | nationality = | period = | spouse = Marc Albert | children = Kimson Albert }} Barbara Summers (September 6, 1944 – November 2014) was an American writer and educator who had also had a long and successful career as a fashion model, working for 17 years with Ford Models, one of America's top agencies. Her 1998 book, ''Skin Deep'' – the story of Black models in America and abroad – is a definitive work on black women in the modeling industry. for which she spent more than a decade interviewing fashion professionals on three continents to record their experiences. Provided by Wikipedia
