September 26, 1997: Volume 41, Number 2

Andrea Barrett '74 to Discuss Ship Fever And Other Works

Andrea Barrett '74, winner of the 1996 National Book Award for fiction for her collection Ship Fever and Other Stories, will speak Monday, Sept. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.

There will be a reception after the lecture in Old Chapel.

Barrett also will meet informally with members of the campus community on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 10:30 a.m. in the Humanities Lounge.

Her talk, titled "The Geography of the North," will reflect Barrett's thinking about arctic exploration, which is the focus of her new book, suggesting its connections to creativity, writing, reading and the scientific perspective.

Barrett graduated from Union as a biology major and went on to further study in zoology and medieval history before discovering that she wanted to be a writer. She published her first book, Lucid Stars, in 1988, followed by Secret Harmonies, The Middle Kingdom (a Literary Guild Alternate) and The Forms of Water before the award-winning Ship Fever.

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