Andrea Barrett

Andrea Barrett ( born November 16, 1954 in Boston) is an American writer.

Andrea Barrett grew up on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and studied zoology at Union College in Schenectady and began to write. For her short story collection Ship Fever she received in 1996 the National Book Award, 2001, she was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship and in 2003 she was with her ​​stories Servants of the Map of the finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Today Andrea Barrett teaches at Williams College and the Warren Wilson College. She lives in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Barrett is best known as an author of historical novels. Many of her characters are scientists, biologists often from the 19th century. Some of her characters appear in several works. In an appendix to the Air we Breathe (Eng. The air we breathe ) Barrett delivers a pedigree that connections between the characters shows that are mentioned in the story collection Ship Fever.

Works (selection)

• Ship fever. Narratives ( "Ship Fever and other stories" ). Claassen, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-546-00229-6.
• Servants of the Map. Stories. Norton Press, New York 2003, ISBN 0-393-32357-9.

• The Forms of Water. Flamingo Books, London 2002, ISBN 0-00-711490-7.
• Across the North Sea. Roman ( " The Voyage of the Narwhal "). Claassen, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-546-00165-6.
• Lucid Stars. A novel. Dell Books, New York, 1988, ISBN 0-385-31943-6.
• The air we breathe. Roman ( " The Air We Breathe" ). Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-908777-42-7 ( translated by Karen Noelle ).
• The Middle Kingdom. Flamingo Books, London 2000, ISBN 0-00-710287-9.
• Secret Harmonies. Delacorte Press, New York, 1989, ISBN 0-385-29771-8.