Barbara Kingsolver
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Schatten über dem Kongo: Die Geschichte eines fast vergessenen Menschheitsverbrechen (1998) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben — 4,729 Exemplare
A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There (1949) — Einführung, einige Ausgaben — 4,352 Exemplare
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Mitwirkender — 183 Exemplare
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (1994) — Mitwirkender — 175 Exemplare
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Mitwirkender — 132 Exemplare
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Mitwirkender — 86 Exemplare
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Mitwirkender — 65 Exemplare
Did My Mama Like to Dance? and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters (1994) — Mitwirkender — 39 Exemplare
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
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- Kingsolver, Barbara Ellen
- Geburtstag
- 1955-04-08
- Geschlecht
- female
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- USA
- Geburtsort
- Annapolis, Maryland, USA
- Wohnorte
- Carlisle, Kentucky, USA
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Greencastle, Indiana, USA
Tucson, Arizona, USA
Southern Appalachia, Virginia, USA - Ausbildung
- DePauw University
University of Arizona - Berufe
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- Kingsolver, Camille (Tochter)
Hopp, Steven (Ehemann)
Hopp, Lily (Tochter) - Organisationen
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- 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) - Agent
- Frances Goldin (Frances Goldin Literary Agency)
- Kurzbiographie
- 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.
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"Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver in 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (März 2023)
August 2019: Barbara Kingsolver in Monthly Author Reads (Dezember 2020)
Barbara Kingsolver: American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Dezember 2015)
[The Lacuna] by [[Barbara Kingsolver]] in Orange January/July (Juli 2011)
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Dellarobia war als wohl einziges junges Mädchen ihrer Heimstadt im ländlichen Tennessee smart und ehrgeizig genug um aufs College zu gehen. Doch eine ungeplante Schwangerschaft und auch die Umstände ihres Lebens (schlechte Schulbildung, wenig Anerkennung für intellektuelle Leistungen, früher Tod der Eltern) ließen diesen Traum scheitern. Nun ist sie Mitte 20 und lebt in einer Ehe mit dem anständigen, doch wenig brillianten Cub, ihren zwei Kindern, wenig Geld und anstrengenden Schwiegereltern.
Da entdeckt sie eine riesige Kolonie Monarch-Schmetterlinge auf ihrem Grundstück. Was zunächst wie ein oranges Wunder aussieht, ist in Wirklichkeit eine Katastrophe. Die Schmetterlinge sollten eigentlich in Mexiko überwintern und es ist unklar, warum sie sich so weit nördlich niederlassen.
Diese Entdeckung, Dellarobias momentane Berühmtheit und die Wissenschaftler die zur Untersuchung kommen ändern das Leben der Familie Turnbow. Konfrontiert mit anderen Werten reflektieren auch Dellarobia und ihre Angehörigen ihr Leben.
Dabei hat die Autorin durchaus Sympathien für alle ihre Protagonisten und bringt Verständnis und Respekt für die verschiedenen Lebensentwürfe auf. Selbst Hester, Dellarobias Schwiegermutter, die zunächst relativ unsympathisch erscheint, wird im Lauf des Buches vertraut und ihr Verhalten, ihre Denkweise durchaus verständlich.
In this book Barbara Kingsolver writes about two topics:Firstly, global warming with its devastating consequences for nature, on the other hand, the personal fate of a redneck family in the American South.
Dellarobia was probably the only young girl in her home town in rural Tennessee planning to go to college. But an unplanned pregnancy and the circumstances of her live (poor school system, little recognition for academic performance, early death of parents) let this dream fail. Now being 28 she lives in a marriage with decent, but not brlliant Cub, their two children and little money.
Then she discoveres a huge colony of Monarch Butterflies on their property. What at first looks like an orange wonder is a disaster in reality. Usually the butterflies hibernate in Mexico and it is unclear why they settle so far north.
This discovery, Dellarobia´s momentary fame and now coming scientists change the life of the Turnbow family.
The author certainly has sympathies for all of her protagonists and brings understanding and respect for their different lifestyles. Even Hester, Dellarobias mother in law, who initially appears relatively unappealing, becomes familiar and her behavior, her way of thinking quite understandable.… (mehr)