Andrea Barrett

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Andrea Barrett (b. November 16, 1954) is an acclaimed American writer. Barrett received her B.A. in biology from Union College and briefly attended a Ph.D. program in zoology. She began writing fiction seriously in her thirties, but was relatively unknown until the publication of Ship Fever, a collection of short stories which won the National Book Award in 1996. Barrett received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001 and her book Servants of the Map was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Barrett is particularly well known as a writer of historical fiction and her work reflects her lifelong interest in science as many of her characters are scientists, often nineteenth-century biologists. Barrett currently teaches at Williams College and in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program.

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  • (1988) Lucid Stars (novel)
  • (1988) The Forms of Water (novel)
  • (1989) Secret Harmonies (novel)
  • (1991) The Middle Kingdom (novel)
  • (1996) Ship Fever (collection of short stories) - 1996 National Book Award Winner
  • (1998) The Voyage of the Narwhal (novel)
  • (2002) Servants of the Map (collection of short stories) - 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Finalist

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