Andrea Barrett

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

Andrea Barrett grew up in Cape Cod , Massachusetts , studied zoology at Union College in Schenectady and began writing. She received the National Book Award in 1996 for her short story book Ship Fever , in 2001 she was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship and in 2003 she was one of the finalists of the Pulitzer Prize with her short stories Servants of the Map . In 2015 she received the prestigious Rea Award for the Short Story . Today Andrea Barrett teaches at Williams College and Warren Wilson College . She lives in North Adams , Massachusetts.

Barrett is best known as a writer of historical novels . Many of her characters are scientists, often nineteenth-century biologists. Some of her characters appear in several works. In an appendix to The Air we Breathe (Eng. The air to breathe ) Barrett provides a family tree that shows connections between the characters, which are already mentioned in the short story Ship Fever .

Works (selection)

stories

• Ship fever. Stories ("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 .

Novels

• The Forms of Water . Flamingo Books, London 2002, ISBN 0-00-711490-7 .
• Beyond 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 to breathe. Roman ("The Air We Breathe"). Dörlemann Verlag, Zurich 2008, ISBN 978-3-908777-42-7 (translated by Karen Nölle).
• The Middle Kingdom . Flamingo Books, London 2000, ISBN 0-00-710287-9 .
• Secret Harmonies . Delacorte Press, New York 1989, ISBN 0-385-29771-8 .

Web links

• Interview with Andrea Barrett at salon.com ( Memento from September 1, 1999 in the Internet Archive )