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Andrea Bartz is an American writer who has achieved significant success in the mystery and thriller genres. Her novel We Were Never Here reached the New York Times bestseller list, establishing her reputation in the publishing world.
In August 2024, Andrea Bartz joined Kirk Wallace Johnson and Charles Graeber as lead plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against the artificial intelligence company Anthropic. The legal action alleged copyright infringement regarding how the company trained its large language models.
On the 23rd of June 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued a ruling stating that Anthropic's use of digital copies constituted fair use under existing law. However, the judge also found that Anthropic had improperly used millions of pirated library copies during the training process.
Anthropic agreed to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle the dispute in September 2025 after the case moved toward trial regarding specific issues of pirated library materials. If approved by the court, this agreement would become the largest copyright resolution in U.S. history.
Andrea Bartz released five major novels between 2019 and 2025, including The Lost Night in 2019, The Herd in 2020, We Were Never Here in 2021, The Spare Room in 2023, and The Last Ferry Out in 2025. Each book was published under different imprints within the Ballantine Books family.