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 de Barbara Kingsolver
Homeland {short story} 2 cópias
Kingsolver, Barbara Archive 1 exemplar(es)
Loveroot * 1 exemplar(es)
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence 1 exemplar(es)
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 1 exemplar(es)
falling house 1 exemplar(es)
Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume XV 1 exemplar(es)
Kingsolver Barbara 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 4,758 cópias
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949) — Introdução, algumas edições — 4,371 cópias
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contribuinte — 184 cópias
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contribuinte — 133 cópias
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contribuinte — 86 cópias
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Contribuinte — 66 cópias
Did My Mama Like to Dance? and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters (1994) — Contribuinte — 40 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Nome de batismo
- 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
Léopoldville, Congo (now Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Greencastle, Indiana, USA
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Washington County, Virginia, USA
England, UK (mostrar todas 8)
France
Canary Islands, Spain - Educação
- DePauw University (BS|1977|biology)
University of Arizona (MS|ecology and evolutionary biology) - Ocupação
- novelist
poet
short-story writer - Relacionamentos
- Kingsolver, Camille (daughter)
Hopp, Steven (husband)
Hopp, Lily (daughter) - Organizações
- Rock Bottom Remainders (band)
- Premiações
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2023)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction (2022)
National Humanities Medal (2000)
Best American Science and Nature Writing (2001)
Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award (2011)
Arizona Press Club Award for Outstanding Feature Writing (1986) (mostrar todas 14)
Women's Prize for Fiction (2010, 2023)
Orange Prize for Fiction (2010)
James Beard Foundation Award (2008)
Los Angeles Times Book Prize (1993)
Library of Virginia Lifetime Achievement Award (2014)
Virginia Women in History (2018)
Honorary Doctorate of Letters, DePauw University (1994)
Phi Beta Kappa (DePauw University, 1977) - Agente
- Frances Goldin (Frances Goldin Literary Agency)
- Pequena biografia
- 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 29)
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)
Resenhas
Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner de Barbara Kingsolver
A story of poverty and the department of Social Services in the South Appalachian mountains. Takes place in the late 1900's and makes you wonder who is actually doing their job. The story follows a red headed boy as he grows up through the trauma of being poor and being pushed around from one foster parent to another. It is the story of foster parents and those who take advantage of these children, it is a story of the opioid crisis. As usual, well written and fast paced. You root for the red head in the end.… (mais)
This book has sat on my shelves for some twenty years without my getting round to it. I tend to shy away from 600 pages, and from 'must reads'. In the event, I demolished it in under two days. This family saga is told from the perspectives of the wife, and the four daughters of a focused, unforgiving American evangelical pastor, Nathan Price. It paints an extraordinary picture of life in an isolated and (from the family's original point of view) primitive African community in the then Belgian Congo. Kingsolver immerses us in the detail of their first difficult year of hardship, then walks us slightly more briskly forward through 30 years of strife, conflict and post-colonialism. The family members are believably from the same stock, but very different one from another, which gives the opportunity to see several sides of the same history. This book is brilliantly realised, well told, and paints a picture of a conflict which was never far from the news in my childhood, but of which I knew little and understood less. It's also a picture of what happens when issues round religion, politics and race relations are unable to find compromise and mutual understanding. A powerful and ambitious tale.… (mais)
I had a love-hate relationship with this book. Hated it, put it aside. Started again a week or two later. Loved it. At first. But in the end, I wondered what the point of reinterpreting the Dickens classic was, though of course it's fun observing all the correspondences with David Copperfield. Kingsolver's passion for social justice shines through, but in the end Demon's spectacular falls from grace become slightly wearying. Just as his final redemption seemed to be hurried through, and not entirely convincing, considering how deeply damaged he was by his falls. I was relieved to finish the bok.… (mais)
Demon Copperhead tackles a lot of heavy subjects - neglected children, abusive relationships, the foster care system, pressure on high school athletes to perform, drug addiction and the culpability of pharmaceutical companies and healthcare providers, American cultural divides and I'm probably missing a couple things. And it's Barbara Kingsolver, so needless to say it's all handled with incredible insight and finesse. Demon Copperhead isn't my favorite Kingsolver book (and I haven't read them all yet) but it's definitely well-worth the read.… (mais)
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