Andrea Barrett

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|birth_place=Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |occupation=Novelist |education=Union College (BA) |genre=Historical fiction |awards=National Book Award for Fiction (1996) }} Andrea Barrett (born November 16, 1954) 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 History'' were finalists for The Story Prize.