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This interview with American novelist Andrea Barrett gives much background information to better know the author. By 1996 Barrett had won the national Book Award for her fifth book and first story collection, Ship Fever. This is the point where the author "broke out", to this point nobody had read her literature much less even heard of her. She was born in Massachusetts and later spoke of her parents divorce; she would hide from her father at his house because he hated her constant reading but her mother allowed her to read. She refers to her mothers house as an intellectual one where most everyone read for learning and not for pleasure. Barrett also describes an English teacher that played important role in the starting of her literary career. Barrett goes on to describe how she attended college early and obtained a degree in biology which has since then been funneled into her books. Most of the remaining part of the interview goes into the fifth book "Ship Fever"; how it was inspired, researched, composed and published.