Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett (born November 16, 1954)[1] is an American novelist and short story writer.Her collection Ship Fever won the 1996 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction,[2] and she received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2001.Barrett began writing fiction seriously in her thirties, but was relatively unknown until the publication of Ship Fever, a collection of novellas and short stories that won the National Book Award in 1996.In an appendix to her novel The Air We Breathe (2007), Barrett supplied a family tree, making clear the characters' relationships that began in Ship Fever.Her short story collection Natural History was longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction in 2023.