Andrea Barrett has received a National Book Award and a MacArthur grant and has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. A fellow at the New York Public Library Center for Scholars and Writers, Barrett lives in North Adams, Massachusetts, and teaches at Williams College.
Andrea Barrett is in a class by herself. A near-perfect equipoise between smooth storytelling and the suggestion of larger truths * Newsday * Few writers have mastered the historical novel as [Barrett] has... Her re-creation of time and place remains glittering * The Times * This is a meticulously researched novel, and provides an edifying glimpse into an odd, static world during a period when the world outside was anything but static * Daily Telegraph *