Barbara Gordon is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with Batman. The character was created by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino. At the request of the producers of the 1960s Batman television series, DC editor Julius Schwartz called for a new female counterpart to the superhero Batman that could be introduced into publication and the third season of the show simultaneously. The character subsequently made her first comic book appearance as Batgirl in Detective Comics No. 359, titled "The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!" (1967), by writer Gardner Fox and artist Carmine Infantino. Written as the daughter of Gotham City police commissioner James Gordon, her civilian identity is given a doctorate in library science and she is employed as head of Gotham City Public Library, as well as later being elected to the United States Congress.

Barbara Gordon is an American award-winning documentary filmmaker and author. After graduating from Barnard College, she worked for almost twenty years in television as a writer and producer. She won two Emmys for her work on the Channel 2 Eye On Series Documentary for WCBS. She also worked on the PBS Emmy Award winning series, The Great American Dream Machine, where she filmed segments on Studs Terkel, Dalton Trumbo, and Jane Fonda. In 1979, Gordon released her autobiography, I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, which follows her addiction to Valium and battle towards recovery.A film adaptation, directed by Jack Hofsiss and starring Jill Clayburgh as Gordon, was released in 1982. Gordon is also the author of the novel Defects of the Heart and the nonfiction book Jennifer Fever.

She currently lives in New York.

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