Andrea Barrett

Andrea Barrett is the author of Archangel (a finalist for the Story Prize), Servants of the Map (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Ship Fever (winner of the National Book Award), and other books. This story will appear in her forthcoming collection, Natural History. She lives in the eastern Adirondacks near Lake Champlain.

Henrietta and Her Moths

by Andrea Barrett | Thursday, November 17, 2022

Traveling Corpse

How an American sergeant’s journey through frigid North Russia inspired a work of historical fiction

by Andrea Barrett | Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Chasing Henrietta

Why one novelist keeps returning to the same inscrutable character

by Andrea Barrett | Monday, June 05, 2017

Tamarack State

by Andrea Barrett | Friday, June 01, 2007

Virginia Woolf’s The Years

What a novel could be

by Andrea Barrett | Monday, April 06, 2015

Don’t Be Afraid to Start Over

by Andrea Barrett | Monday, May 05, 2014