"By junior high, I was a horrible student. But during my sophomore year of high school, I did have a fabulous English teacher, and I would go to school just for her class and then skip out afterwards. That's actually when I started writing, although I didn't think of it then as something I might someday do."

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About Andrea Barrett

Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer known for historically grounded fiction with strong scientific themes. She won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1996 for Ship Fever.

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