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	Barbara Kingsolver - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Barbara Kingsolver (born April 18, 1955) is an American fiction writer.
		Kingsolver worked as a laboratory assistant and later enrolled as a graduate student in biology at the University of Arizona.
		Native Americans are a prominent theme in several of Kingsolver's books and a few of her poems, especially relating to the prejudice against Native Americans by white settlers and the Trail of Tears.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barbara_Kingsolver (895 words)

	ashgroveaudiobook.com - Barbara Kingsolver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Barbara Ellen Kingsolver, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, and The Poisonwood Bible, was born on April 18, 1955, in Annapolis, Maryland.
		Kingsolver describes herself as a shy person who had a "wallflower youth." She has a "fierce wish to look inside people and an aptitude for listening." She has kept a journal since she was eight years old.
		Kingsolver was married to Joseph Hoffman, a chemist, from 1985 to 1992.
	www.ashgroveaudiobook.com /grove/info_kids_kingsolver.html (763 words)

	Barbara Kingsolver
		Kingsolver has always been a storyteller: "I used to beg my mother to let me tell her a bedtime story." As a child, she wrote stories and essays and, beginning at the age of eight, kept a journal religiously.
		Kingsolver's fiction is rich with the language and imagery of her native Kentucky.
		Barbara's Prodigal Summer, released in November of 2000, is a novel set in a rural farming community of southern Appalachia.
	www.kingsolver.com /about/about.asp (991 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: Barbara Kingsolver's Intellectual Offenses by Bruce S. Thornton
		Kingsolver's take on the terrorist attacks of 9/11 is a variation of the "we had it coming" argument.
		Kingsolver's ideas, like those of the "anti-globalization" crowd that provides most of the shock-troops for the "peace" movement, reflect a child-like utopianism that has proved unworkable over and over again in the real world of human complexity and evil.
		The economic globalization that Kingsolver and her ilk decry is in fact the proven answer to the perennial human problem of deprivation and want.
	www.frontpagemag.com /articles/readarticle.asp?ID=6489 (856 words)

	KYLIT - A site devoted to Kentucky Writers
		Despite the fact that Kingsolver's writing career can be written up without a mention of Kentucky, a telephone interview I had with her mother on December 5, 1994, revealed this writer's deep Kentucky roots.
		Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland, where her father was temporarily serving as a Navy doctor.
		Barbara Kingsolver was raised in Carlisle and graduated from Nicholas County High School there.
	www.english.eku.edu /SERVICES/KYLIT/KINGSLVR.HTM (649 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Transcript. Bill Moyers Interviews Barbara Kingsolver. 5.24.02 \| PBS
		The cover of a new collection of essays by Barbara Kingsolver, for whom nature is always the inspiration for her work.
		KINGSOLVER: Now we are faced with something new, an enemy we can't kill because it's a widespread anger so much stronger than physical want, that its foot soldiers gladly surrender their lives in its service.
		KINGSOLVER: I think that every girl born into this world reaches a day or a week or a year in her life when she looks up from her skinned knees and the tree she's been climbing...
	www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_kingsolver.html (2226 words)

	Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara Kingsolver from HarperCollins Publishers
		Some years back when Kingsolver was participating in a demonstration against the Persian Gulf War, a young man in a pick-up drove by and yelled, "It's your country bitch, love it or leave it!" Recalling this incident during a television interview, she reconsiders the comment.
		Barbara Kingsolver was born 1955 in eastern Kentucky, the daughter of a rural physician.
		Barbara Kingsolver presently lives outside of Tucson with her husband, Steven Hopp, and her two daughters, Camille and Lily.
	www.harpercollins.com /global_scripts/product_catalog/book_xml.asp?isbn=0060504080&tc=rg (1943 words)

	Barbara Kingsolver author biography.
		Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955 and grew up in rural Kentucky.
		Kingsolver's third novel, Pigs in heaven, was published in 1993, and her collection of essays, High Tide in Tucson, in 1995.
		Barbara Kingsolver lives with her husband and daughters in southern Arizona and in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
	www.oprah.com /obc/pastbooks/barb_kingsolver/obc_20000623_aboutauthor.jhtml (375 words)

	BookWeb: Bookselling This Week: Barbara Kingsolver Commits to Independents and Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kingsolver's concerns about environmental issues are often depicted in her books.
		Beirn told BTW that "nature is a protagonist in Prodigal Summer." In Prodigal Summer, Kingsolver's characters break and forge attachments with one another while disagreeing passionately about organic farming and herbicide use, the ethics of raising tobacco, the fragile ecological balance of animals in the wild, and the disappearance of the subsistence farmer.
		Barbara Kingsolver expressed her philosophy about the North Cascades Institute in one of the organization's publications: "I've always believed that if people only knew enough about the wonders and delicate balances of the natural world, they would care enough to preserve it.
	www.bookweb.org /news/btw/3830.html (778 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver - Hardcover - 1 ED
		Barbara Kingsolver calls her new novel, The Poisonwood Bible, her "magnum opus." And it is — 500-plus pages of "the deepest-delving" fiction she's ever written, not to mention a fresh new locale.
		Kingsolver is a great talent, ably using African languages in her prose while developing a story with all the elements of a true classic.
		Kingsolver also masterfully explicates the complex and tragic history of the Congolese rebels of 1959, their struggle for independence, and the outbreak of war.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=xD6CagTCqu&isbn=0060175400&itm=3 (1502 words)

	BookPage Interview November 1998: Barbara Kingsolver
		Barbara Kingsolver was a little girl of seven when she and her family left their Kentucky home to spend two years in the Congo.
		Kingsolver chose multiple voices to portray the enormity, the complexity, of her subject.
		While Kingsolver was revising her novel, the Congo itself began its own revision.
	www.bookpage.com /9811bp/barbara_kingsolver.html (1045 words)

	Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
		In her novel, The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver extends her formidable literary talents with a large-scale fictional narrative set amidst the political turmoil of post-Colonial Africa.
		Yet, while working on a larger canvas than in past books, Kingsolver nonetheless draws on her finely honed talents for characterization and observation, to create an intimate portrait of one family's tragic confrontation with the unstoppable forces of nature, history, and hubris.
		Synthesizing her widespread knowledge of history, science and anthropology, and tempering it with characteristic insight and wit, Barbara Kingsolver has written her most accomplished novel to date.
	www.oprah.com /obc/pastbooks/barb_kingsolver/obc_20000623_aboutbook.jhtml (554 words)

	Barbara Kingsolver - Wikiquote
		Barbara Kingsolver (April 8, 1955 -) Barbara Kingsolver is an American fiction writer.
		But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed.
		They eventually did come with the ladder and haul him down, and he wasn't dead but lost his hearing and in many other ways was never the same afterward.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Barbara_Kingsolver (915 words)

	AllRefer.com - Barbara Kingsolver (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		She studied biology and ecology and was a science writer before completing The Bean Trees (1988), a novel about a young woman who leaves Kentucky for Arizona, where she lives with a young Cherokee girl.
		Kingsolver's Arizona novels also include Animal Dreams (1990) and Pigs in Heaven (1993), a sequel to her first book.
		Kingsolver has also written short stories, bilingual poetry, essays, and a study of an Arizona mine strike (1989).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kingslvr.html (245 words)

	What If? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kingsolver credits her careers in scientific writing and journalism with instilling in her a writer's discipline and broadening her "fictional possibilities."
		Kingsolver has also published a collection of poetry, Another America: Otra America (Seal Press, 1992, 1998), and a nonfiction book, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of l983 (ILR Press/Cornell University Press, 1989, 1996).
		When not writing or spending time with her family, Barbara gardens, cooks, hikes, works as an environmental activist and human-rights advocate, and plays hand drums and keyboards with her husband, guitarist, Steven Hopp.
	www.wfpl.org /kingsolver.htm (1106 words)

	Interview with Barbara Kingsolver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kingsolver: Historical fiction is a frighteningly labor-intensive proposition.
		Kingsolver: Nathan kept me in thrall for thousands of pages, counting the many drafts of this long novel.
		Kingsolver: I'm not certain how the first part of your question relates to the second.
	www3.baylor.edu /Rel_Lit/archives/interviews/kingsolver_intv.html (1459 words)

	Tending her garden / Novelist Barbara Kingsolver grapples with life after Sept. 11 in her new book of essays
		Those hoping that Kingsolver would wield her enormous literary clout and silence the choir of American hegemony may be disappointed.
		Be it predicting the grave consequences of genetically modified food or explaining the ecological importance of cooperative farming in Mexico, Kingsolver possesses a rare depth of understanding of nature's complex mechanisms.
		But Kingsolver miscalculates by assuming that her own adventures in parenthood might help the reader understand anything other than mother- daughter dynamics.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/reviews/books/SMALL_WONDER.DTL&type=books (677 words)

	Barbara Kingsolver - HarperAcademic
		Here Barbara raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world.
		Barbara Kingsolver presently lives outside of Tucson with her husband Steven Hopp, and her two daughters, Camille from a previous marriage, and Lily, who was born in 1996.
		When not writing or spending time with her family, Barbara gardens, cooks, hikes, and works as an environmental activist and human-rights advocate.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/author_xml.asp?authorID=5311 (999 words)

	NewsHour Online: Gergen Interview
		David Gergen, editor-at-large at "U.S. News & World Report," talks with Barbara Kingsolver, author of High Tide in Tucson, a collection of essays exploring themes of family, community, and the natural world.
		BARBARA KINGSOLVER: It is in my own little corner.
		BARBARA KINGSOLVER: I think it's a terrific thing to value those parts of your history that--I mean, we have a terrific moral vision.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/gergen/kingsolver.html (1384 words)

	Barbara Kingsolver on Flagwaving
		Or the talk-radio hosts, who are viciously bullying a handful of members of Congress for airing sensible skepticism at a time when the White House was announcing preposterous things in apparent self-interest, such as the "revelation" that terrorists had aimed to hunt down Air Force One with a hijacked commercial plane.
		Barbara Lee cast the House's only vote against handing over virtually unlimited war powers to one man that a whole lot of us didn't vote for.
		Barbara Kingsolver is the author of nine books including "The Poisonwood Bible," (Harperflamingo, 1999).
	humanities.psydeshow.org /political/kingsolver2.htm (1150 words)

	Barbara Kingsolver: An Evening with Barbara Kingsolver
		In this very special evening, one of the world's best-loved writers, Barbara Kingsolver, whose books include five widely acclaimed novels as well as collections of short stories, poetry, and an oral history, comes to the Smithsonian to receive this year's John P. McGovern Behavioral Science Award.
		Kingsolver's first novel, The Bean Trees, has been adapted into the core English literature curriculum in many colleges and high schools, and her book The Poisonwood Bible won literary awards nationally and internationally.
		Kingsolver's lecture is highlighted by the presentation of the McGovern Award, in recognition of her contributions to furthering our understanding of American family life.
	smithsonianassociates.org /programs/kingsolver/start.asp (187 words)

	Barbara Kingsolver’s Anti-Western \|\| Americana: The Journal Of American Popular Culture 1900-Present
		Best-selling and award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver is often discussed as a regional writer of the new West, as well as a representative of “ecofeminist” fiction.
		Kingsolver sees one of her tasks as a writer to be “unraveling” such sacred myths (PBS interview).
		Kingsolver’s critique of violence is extended to the level of national policy by the fate of Codi’s sister Hallie.
	www.americanpopularculture.com /journal/articles/fall_2003/jacobs.htm (5259 words)

	Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As well as engaging the predictable issue of skin color, Kingsolver explores race and disability as cultural identities whose construction intertwines, and as identities figured very differently in American and African cultures.
		While the characterization of Adah seems at times to romanticize disability, the explorations of embodiment Kingsolver enacts through this character are generally astute and a welcome change from the usual fare of disability as essential defect and tragedy.
		This is the most ambitious and multi-layered of Kingsolver's novels (see also Animal Dreams, in this database), worth considering in relation to Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a literary representation of the workings of colonialism in the Belgian Congo.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/kingsolver1686-des-.html (688 words)

	TheBookHaven.net - Prodigal Summer - Barbara Kingsolver
		Kingsolver spends a great deal of time discussing the landscape on the mountain and in the valley.
		Kingsolver's beautifully detailed description of the rural Virginia landscape.
		That being said, I feel Barbara Kingsolver is a talented author and I wait patiently for her future novels.
	www.thebookhaven.net /Z_Prodigal_Summer.html (839 words)

	Amazon.com: The Bean Trees : A Novel: Books: Barbara Kingsolver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kingsolver's skills as a story teller greatly improved between these two novels, but that does not mean THE BEAN TREES is a poorly written book.
		The story is rather simple, a girl decides to leave home and heads west but along the way she has a baby dropped in her lap, and settles in a Arizona town (where her car breaks down).
		Kingsolver is a very easy to read novelist that always includes characters that evolve and mature, topics that are controversial (such as abuse and war), and a lot of humor and warmth in her characters and their situations.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0061097314?v=glance (1793 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Poisonwood Bible: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		So when Barbara Kingsolver sends missionary Nathan Price along with his wife and four daughters off to Africa in The Poisonwood Bible, you can be sure that salvation is the one thing they're not likely to find.
		More problematic is Kingsolver's tendency to wear her politics on her sleeve; this is particularly evident in the second half of the novel, in which she uses her characters as mouthpieces to explicate the complicated and tragic history of the Belgian Congo.
		True, Kingsolver is more interested in his four daughters, and this is their story, but white, male, evangelical does make for a soft target in these politically correct times.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/057120175X (1539 words)

	Review of Barbara Kingsolver, Prodigal Summer
		Deanna Wolfe, heroine of the first of three interwoven stories in the novel, comes to experience a range of biologically-driven emotions shaped largely by her age (the other side of forty), but you'd never mistake her for a chick-lit heroine who could say the words 'biological clock' without irony.
		Having chosen a life of isolation after her marriage ends, her world is invaded by Eddie Bondo, coyote hunter and sex god, with whom she argues and makes love and through whom she comes to reevaluate her notions of independence.
		Kingsolver recently told Ms., "I am not ashamed to say that I want to change the world" and much of Prodigal Summer follows her other novels, essays and stories in striving for engagement with issues of environmentalism and community.
	www.womenwriters.net /may2001/Prodigal.htm (608 words)

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