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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. She teaches at Williams College and lives in northwestern Massachusetts.

Traveling Corpse

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

Chasing Henrietta

Why one novelist keeps returning to the same inscrutable character

by Andrea Barrett | Monday, June 05, 2017
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Tamarack State

by Andrea Barrett | Friday, June 01, 2007
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Virginia Woolf’s The Years

What a novel could be

by Andrea Barrett | Monday, April 06, 2015
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Don’t Be Afraid to Start Over

by Andrea Barrett | Monday, May 05, 2014
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It’s officially back-to-school season, a time of year that always makes us just a little bit wistful for the start of a new semester, despite how much we hated first period pre-calc. Fortunately, we can always return to these 14 literary campuses, with no homework required.