Barbara Kingsolver
Autor(a) de The Poisonwood Bible
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 | Homeland and Other Stories | Animal Dreams | Small Wonder | The Bean Trees | Pigs in Heaven |… 3 exemplares
Homeland {short story} 2 exemplares
Loveroot * 1 exemplar
Kingsolver, Barbara Archive 1 exemplar
falling house 1 exemplar
Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume XV 1 exemplar
Kingsolver Barbara 1 exemplar
Associated Works
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 4,729 exemplares
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949) — Introdução, algumas edições — 4,352 exemplares
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contribuidor — 201 exemplares
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contribuidor — 183 exemplares
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (1994) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
Did My Mama Like to Dance? and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters (1994) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Etiquetado
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)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- 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)
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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