Andrea Barnet is an American author.

Andrea Barnet
BornBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
CitizenshipUnited S
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Harvard University
Period2004 – present
Notable worksAll-Night Party (2004)
Visionary Women (2018)
SpouseKit White
Children1
Website
www.andreabarnet.com

Biography

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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.[1][2][3][4]

Personal life

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She is married to artist Kit White and they have one daughter. They live in New York.[1]

Bibliography

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  • 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

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  1. ^ a b "Andrea Barnet". Library of Congress.
  2. ^ "Author Talk with Andrea Barnet". Cornwall Library.
  3. ^ "Four women who changed our world". The Washington Post. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Andrea Barnet". C-SPAN.