Background
Barrett, Andrea Fuller was born on November 16, 1954 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Daughter of Norman Fuller Junior and Anne Tucker (Jensen) Barrett.
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Le Voyage de Narwhal
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Andrea Fuller Barrett
Edit Profilenovelist university professor writer
Education
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in biology from Union College and briefly attended a Doctor of Philosophy program in zoology.
Career
Barrett"s work has been published in A Public Space, The Paris Review, Tin House, Ploughshares, One Story, Triquarterly, Salmagundi, The American Scholar, and The Kenyon Review, among other places. Barrett is particularly well known as a writer of historical fiction. Her work reflects her lifelong interest in science, and women in science.
Many of her characters are scientists, often 19th-century biologists.
As in the work of William Faulkner, some of her characters have appeared in more than one story or novel. In an appendix to her recent novel, The Air We Breathe (2007), Barrett supplied a family tree, making clear the characters" relationships that began in Ship Fever.
Although each novel and story is self-contained, the reader comprehends an added dimension when familiar with the characters" previous histories. Barrett teaches at Williams College in Massachusetts and in the Warren Wilson College Master of Fine Arts Program for Writers in North Carolina.
She was a fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
She lives in North Adams, Massachusetts.
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Married Barry M. Goldstein, 1979.
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