Barbara Kingsolver
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Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland and grew up in Eastern Kentucky. As a child, Kingsolver used to beg her mother to tell her bedtime stories. She soon started to write stories and essays of her own, and at the age of nine, she began to keep a journal. After visa mer graduating with a degree in biology form De Pauw University in Indiana in 1977, Kingsolver pursued graduate studies in biology and ecology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She earned her Master of Science degree in the early 1980s. A position as a science writer for the University of Arizona soon led Kingsolver into feature writing for journals and newspapers. Her articles have appeared in a number of publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Smithsonian magazines. In 1985, she married a chemist, becoming pregnant the following year. During her pregnancy, Kingsolver suffered from insomnia. To ease her boredom when she couldn't sleep, she began writing fiction Barbara Kingsolver's first fiction novel, The Bean Trees, published in 1988, is about a young woman who leaves rural Kentucky and finds herself living in urban Tucson. Since then, Kingsolver has written other novels, including Holding the Line, Homeland, and Pigs in Heaven. In 1995, after the publication of her essay collection High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never, Kingsolver was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from her alma mater, De Pauw University. Her latest works include The Lacuna and Flight Behavior. Barbara's nonfiction book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was written with her family. This is the true story of the family's adventures as they move to a farm in rural Virginia and vow to eat locally for one year. They grow their own vegetables, raise their own poultry and buy the rest of their food directly from farmers markets and other local sources. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Homeland {short story} 2 exemplar
Loveroot * 1 exemplar
Kingsolver, Barbara Archive 1 exemplar
falling house 1 exemplar
Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume XV 1 exemplar
Kingsolver Barbara 1 exemplar
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- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Kingsolver, Barbara Ellen
- Födelsedag
- 1955-04-08
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Annapolis, Maryland, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Carlisle, Kentucky, USA
Kinshasa, Congo
Greencastle, Indiana, USA
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Washington County, Virginia, USA
England, UK (visa alla 8)
France
Canary Islands, Spain - Utbildning
- DePauw University (BS|biology)
University of Arizona (MS|ecology and evolutionary biology) - Yrken
- novelist
poet
short-story writer - Relationer
- Kingsolver, Camille (daughter)
Hopp, Steven (husband)
Hopp, Lily (daughter) - Organisationer
- Rock Bottom Remainders (band)
- Priser och utmärkelser
- Arizona Press Club Award for Outstanding Feature Writing (1986)
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, DePauw University (1994)
National Humanities Medal (2000)
Best American Science and Nature Writing (2001)
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award (2011)
Phi Beta Kappa (DePauw University, 1977) - Agent
- Frances Goldin (Frances Goldin Literary Agency)
- Kort biografi
- Barbara Kingsolver is 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. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.
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"Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver i 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (mars 2023)
August 2019: Barbara Kingsolver i Monthly Author Reads (december 2020)
Barbara Kingsolver: American Author Challenge i 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (december 2015)
[The Lacuna] by [[Barbara Kingsolver]] i Orange January/July (juli 2011)
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