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Barbara Kingsolver

Autor(a) de The Poisonwood Bible

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About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos

Séries

Obras por Barbara Kingsolver

The Poisonwood Bible (1998) 26,158 exemplares
The Bean Trees (1988) 9,820 exemplares
Prodigal Summer (2000) 8,973 exemplares
Pigs in Heaven (1993) 6,090 exemplares
Animal Dreams (1990) 5,575 exemplares
The Lacuna (2009) 5,302 exemplares
Flight Behavior (2012) 3,955 exemplares
Demon Copperhead (2022) 3,044 exemplares
Small Wonder: Essays (2002) 2,261 exemplares
Unsheltered (2018) 2,126 exemplares
Homeland and Other Stories (1989) 1,670 exemplares
The Best American Short Stories 2001 (2001) — Editor — 543 exemplares
Another America / Otra América (1992) 183 exemplares
How to Fly in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons: Poems (2020) — Autor — 140 exemplares
The Great Texas Dragon Race (2023) 25 exemplares
Coyote's Wild Home (2023) 9 exemplares
The Bean Trees | Pigs in Heaven (1999) 4 exemplares
Loveroot * 1 exemplar
falling house 1 exemplar
Kingsolver Barbara 1 exemplar
Water Is Life {essay} (2010) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) — Prefácio, algumas edições4,729 exemplares
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949) — Introdução, algumas edições4,352 exemplares
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contribuidor — 444 exemplares
American Earth: Environmental Writing Since Thoreau (2008) — Contribuidor — 414 exemplares
Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature (1991) — Contribuidor — 397 exemplares
Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting (2013) — Contribuidor — 263 exemplares
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
My Favorite Fantasy Story (2000) — Contribuidor — 166 exemplares
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contribuidor — 159 exemplares
Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals (1998) — Contribuidor — 122 exemplares
Best Food Writing 2007 (2007) — Contribuidor — 112 exemplares
Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places (1994) — Contribuidor — 105 exemplares
Letters to a Young Farmer: On Food, Farming, and Our Future (2017) — Contribuidor — 58 exemplares
The Seasons of Women: An Anthology (1995) — Contribuidor — 46 exemplares
The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 (2011) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Spring: A Spiritual Biography of the Season (2006) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Contribuidor — 32 exemplares
Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age (1995) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Travelers' Tales AMERICAN SOUTHWEST : True Stories (2001) — Autor — 17 exemplares
The Caedmon Short Story Collection (2001) — Contribuidor — 8 exemplares
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1988 (1988) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
Race Traitor 10 (1999) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
To Eat with Grace (2014) — Contribuidor — 2 exemplares
Journeys (1996) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome legal
Kingsolver, Barbara Ellen
Data de nascimento
1955-04-08
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Annapolis, Maryland, USA
Locais de residência
Carlisle, Kentucky, USA
Kinshasa, Congo
Greencastle, Indiana, USA
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Washington County, Virginia, USA
England, UK (mostrar todos 8)
France
Canary Islands, Spain
Educação
DePauw University (BS|biology)
University of Arizona (MS|ecology and evolutionary biology)
Ocupações
novelist
poet
short-story writer
Relações
Kingsolver, Camille (daughter)
Hopp, Steven (husband)
Hopp, Lily (daughter)
Organizações
Rock Bottom Remainders (band)
Prémios e menções honrosas
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)
Agente
Frances Goldin (Frances Goldin Literary Agency)

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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.

Membros

Discussions

"Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver em 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (Março 2023)
August 2019: Barbara Kingsolver em Monthly Author Reads (Dezembro 2020)
Barbara Kingsolver: American Author Challenge em 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Dezembro 2015)
[The Lacuna] by [[Barbara Kingsolver]] em Orange January/July (Julho 2011)

Críticas

A searing look at the life of a poverty-stricken, unwanted boy growing up amid the opioid crisis in the mountains of Virginia. Abusive step-father, criminal foster parents, drug addict friends are balanced by DC's will and perseverance. Kingsolver hammers home the message that DC is -- indeed all of his people -- are, at best, scapegoats and objects of scorn and, at worst, invisible. Despite the gravity of the subject, the book has moments of humor, poignancy, and even joy. This is the true hillbilly elegy.… (mais)
 
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mjspear | 127 outras críticas | Mar 17, 2024 |
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
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jepeters333 | 127 outras críticas | Mar 12, 2024 |
On the surface, this is a retelling of David Copperfield in late twentieth century Appalachia, but it is so much more than that. Kingsolver tackles so many problems that plague rural America with deep care and compassion for the people who live it. I thought this was a wonderful book.
 
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fuzzy_patters | 127 outras críticas | Feb 26, 2024 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
42
Also by
31
Membros
86,268
Popularidade
#126
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
2,120
ISBN
549
Línguas
18
Marcado como favorito
551

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