Andrea Barnet
{{Short description|American author}}
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| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
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| occupation = Writer
| period = 2004 – present
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| website = {{URL|https://www.andreabarnet.com}}
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| spouse = Kit White
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| alma_mater = University of Pennsylvania
Harvard University
| language = English
| citizenship = United S
| notable_works = All-Night Party (2004)
Visionary Women (2018)
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Andrea Barnet is an American author.
Biography
Andrea Barnet was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She got her education at the University of Pennsylvania and then attended Harvard University. After college, Barnet worked as a reviewer for The New York Times Book Review for 25 years from 1985. She also produced work for publications such as Smithsonian, Harper's Bazaar, The Globe, Avenue, 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.{{cite web |title=Andrea Barnet |url=https://www.loc.gov/events/2019-national-book-festival/authors/item/n2003053266/andrea-barnet/ |website=Library of Congress}}{{cite web |title=Author Talk with Andrea Barnet |url=https://cornwalllibrary.org/event/author-talk-with-andrea-barnet/|publisher=Cornwall Library}}{{cite news |title=Four women who changed our world |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/four-women-who-changed-our-world/2018/03/15/4cddc116-1748-11e8-8b08-027a6ccb38eb_story.html |work=The Washington Post|access-date=16 February 2021}}{{cite news |title=Andrea Barnet |url=https://www.c-span.org/person/?andreabarnet |publisher=C-SPAN}}
Personal life
Bibliography
- Barnet, Andrea (2004-01-01). All-night Party: The Women of Bohemian Greenwich Village and Harlem, 1913-1930. Algonquin Books. {{ISBN|978-1-56512-381-6}}.
- Visionary Women: How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall and Alice Waters Changed Our World (2018)
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Category:21st-century American women writers
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