Barbara Ann Corcoran

 Barbara Ann Corcoran (born March 10 1949) is an American businesswoman, investor speaking, consultant, syndicated columnist, TV personality, author and author. In 2001, she established The Corcoran Group in New York City. She sold the brokerage to NRT for $66 millions. Then, shortly after she resigned from the company. Corcoran was a participant in 12 of ABC's Shark Tank seasons. Corcoran has signed 53 deals in February of 2020. The biggest deal she signed was her investment of $350,000 in Coverplay for 40%. Corcoran was born in Edgewater, New Jersey, the second of 10 children in a working class Irish-Catholic family.  Her mother, Florence, was a household worker. Edwin W. Corcoran Jr. was her father. He was always changing jobs during Corcoran’s life. In times, her family relied upon deliveries of free food from a friendly local grocer. Corcoran remembers her father as a drunkard who sometimes treated her mother with condescension and disrespect, especially when he had been drinking. Corcoran was a struggling pupil throughout her schooling. She later discovered that she was dyslexic. She attended an area Catholic elementary school before beginning high school in St. Cecilia High School in Englewood. After failing several courses in her first year, Corcoran transferred to Leonia High School in Leonia, where she graduated as a D student.