Sunday, January 11, 1970

Barbara Kingsolver

 Barbara Kingsolver

  • Birth:        April 8, 1955
  • Death:    
  • Nationality:       Annapolis, Maryland
  • Education:     University of Arizona
  • Author URL:    http://barbarakingsolver.net/
  • Books Written
    • Fiction
    • The Bean Trees, 1988, 1st UK edition 1989, Limited edition (200) 1992
      Homeland and Other Stories, 1989
      Animal Dreams, 1990
      Pigs in Heaven, 1993
      The Poisonwood Bible, 1998
      Prodigal Summer, 2000
      The Lacuna, 2009
      Flight Behavior, 2012; German translation by Sylvia Spatz 2014: Das Flugverhalten der Schmetterlinge
      Unsheltered, 2018
      Demon Copperhead, 2022

      Essays
          High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never, 1995, also: Limited edition (150) 1995
          Small Wonder: Essays, 2002

      Poetry
          Another America, 1992
          How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons), 2020

      Nonfiction
      Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, 1989
      Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands, 2002 (with photographer Annie Griffiths Belt)
      Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life 2007, (with Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver)
  • Biography

an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. From Wikipedia

  • APNews-October 18, 2022: Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Demon Copperhead’ is new Oprah pick


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