Kingsolver, Barbara (1955–)
Kingsolver, Barbara (1955–)
American journalist, essayist and novelist. Born April 8, 1955, in Kentucky; graduate of DePauw University, 1977; University of Arizona, MS; m. Steven Hopp (chemist), 1985; children: Camille and Lily.
Published 1st novel The Bean Trees (1988), followed by an oral history, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 (1989); other novels include Animal Dreams (1990), Pigs in Heaven (1993) and Prodigal Summer (2000); also wrote (short stories) Homeland, (poems) Another America/Otra America (1992) and the bestselling (essays) High Tide in Tucson (1998). Awarded National Humanities medal (2000).
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