Quote of the day
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Andrea Barrett
Born: November 16, 1954 (age 69)
Bio: Andrea Barrett 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.
Known for:
- Ship Fever (1996)
- The Voyage of the Narwhal (1998)
- Servants of the map (2002)
- The Air We Breathe (2007)
- Lucid stars (1988)