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Andrea Barnet is an American author.


Biography

Andrea Barnet was born in
Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...
,
Massachusetts Massachusetts (Massachusett language, Massachusett: ''Muhsachuweesut assachusett writing systems, məhswatʃəwiːsət'' English: , ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous U.S. state, state in the New England ...
. She got her education at the
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
and then attended
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
. After college, Barnet worked as a reviewer for ''
The New York Times Book Review ''The New York Times Book Review'' (''NYTBR'') is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of ''The New York Times'' in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely rea ...
'' for 25 years from 1985. She also produced work for publications such as '' Smithsonian'', ''
Harper's Bazaar ''Harper's Bazaar'' is an American monthly women's fashion magazine. It was first published in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly ''Harper's Bazar''. ''Harper's Bazaar'' is published by Hearst and considers itself to be the st ...
'', '' The Globe'', ''
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'', and '' Architectural Record''. She has written two books. Her second, ''Visionary Women'', was a finalist for the 2019 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award and won The Green Prize for Sustainable Literature, while the first was shortlisted for the
17th Lambda Literary Awards The 17th Lambda Literary Awards were held in 2005 to honour works of LGBT literature published in 2004. Special awards Nominees and winners External links 17th Lambda Literary Awards {{Lambda Literary Awards Lambda Literary Awards Lambda ...
.


Personal life

She is married to artist Kit White and they have one daughter. They live in New York.


Bibliography

* ''All-Night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930'' (2004) * ''Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters Changed Our World'' (2018)


Sources

Living people Writers from Boston 21st-century American women writers University of Pennsylvania alumni Harvard University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-writer-stub