Barbara B. Heyman, musicologist and editor, has written and lectured extensively about Samuel Barber. Her book Samuel Barber: The Composer and His Music (Oxford University Press, 1992) won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and is considered the definitive biography of the composer. She has subsequently created Samuel Barber: A Thematic Catalogue of the Complete Works (Oxford University Press, 2012) and is currently preparing her second edition of the biography.