Andrea Barrett was born in 1954 and grew up on Cape Cod. She studied at Union College in Schenectady, New York, where she received a BA in biology and briefly attended a PhD in zoology. She began writing seriously in her thirties and first found significant success with Ship Fever (1996) a collection of short stories that won the National Book Award. She received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. Her 2002 collection of short stories, Servants of the Map, was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
Awards: NBA (1996) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
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Novels
Lucid Stars (1988)
Secret Harmonies (1989)
The Middle Kingdom (1991)
The Forms of Water (1992)
The Voyage of the Narwhal (1998)
The Air We Breathe (2007)
Secret Harmonies (1989)
The Middle Kingdom (1991)
The Forms of Water (1992)
The Voyage of the Narwhal (1998)
The Air We Breathe (2007)
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Books containing stories by Andrea Barrett
The Ends of the Earth (2007)
An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic
edited by
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Andrea Barrett recommends
The History of Sound (2024)
Ben Shattuck
"Beautifully constructed, emotionally resonant, and richly rooted in the natural world, these stories chime memorably through time and space."
Wine People (2023)
Michelle Wildgen
"Wildgen beautifully captures the shifting feelings and perspectives of a long friendship evolving over time, even as she illuminates a little-known corner of wine culture. An intriguing read!"
Reproduction (2023)
Louisa Hall
"What a brilliant novel! I was moved, troubled, enchanted; hardly able to breathe as I read. Hall's dazzling and original tale has the force of myth, embodying the monstrous challenges of reproducing in our strange new world."
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