Andrea Barrett

(1954) Writer

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Andrea Barrett is a writer.

Quick Facts About Andrea Barrett

Born: November 16, 1954
Profession: Writer

About Andrea Barrett

[Wikidata] American novelist and short story writer... | [Wikipedia] Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer. Her collection Ship Fever won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, and she received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001. Her book Servants of the Map was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Archangel and Natural

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“I have no appetite,' she sighed. 'Not for food, not for work. Not for anything.' I looked at her and wondered what…

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Food

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In the story I eventually called 'Archangel' and published in 2008, Eudora MacEachern, working as an assistant to a surgeon at a…

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Body

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All my life, books have felt alive; some more so than people, or rather, some people. Alive - this has to do…

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Alive

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For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy…

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Communication

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My mother was largely a housewife until she and my father were divorced. No one in the family read for pleasure -…

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Family

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“In that light, across the field, is all I will never have. Next to me is all I will.”

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Light

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“The life she'd led, each of the places she'd called home sending unexpected shoots toward the next, had made her open to…

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Life

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Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people…

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Conflict

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