Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955, and spent her childhood in Eastern Kentucky. Her formal education has been concentrated in biology, and she eventually earned a Masters in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.
Kingsolver didn't begin writing novels until she was pregnant and couldn't sleep at night. This is how she wrote The Bean Trees, which was her first published novel. Kingsolver has enjoyed great success, including the National Humanities Medal from Bill Clinton in 2000.
Kingsolver currently lives on a farm in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia with her husband. This was the setting for much of her popular book, Animal, Vegetable Miracle.
Works By the Author:
The Bean Trees (1988)
Homeland and Other Stories (1989)
Holding the Line:Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (1989)
Animal Dreams (1991)
Pigs in Heaven (1993)
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never (1995)
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (1998)
Prodigal Summer (2000)
Small Wonder (2002)
Last Stand: America's Virgin Islands (2002)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007)
The Lacuna (2009)
Kingsolver didn't begin writing novels until she was pregnant and couldn't sleep at night. This is how she wrote The Bean Trees, which was her first published novel. Kingsolver has enjoyed great success, including the National Humanities Medal from Bill Clinton in 2000.
Kingsolver currently lives on a farm in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia with her husband. This was the setting for much of her popular book, Animal, Vegetable Miracle.
Works By the Author:
The Bean Trees (1988)
Homeland and Other Stories (1989)
Holding the Line:Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (1989)
Animal Dreams (1991)
Pigs in Heaven (1993)
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never (1995)
The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (1998)
Prodigal Summer (2000)
Small Wonder (2002)
Last Stand: America's Virgin Islands (2002)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007)
The Lacuna (2009)
