Barbara Kingsolver
Auteur de Les yeux dans les arbres
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Barbara Kingsolver
Sur les piquets de grève : les femmes dans la grande grève des mines d'Arizona en 1983 (1989) 207 exemplaires
The Poisonwood Bible | Homeland and Other Stories | Animal Dreams | Small Wonder | The Bean Trees | Pigs in Heaven |… 3 exemplaires
Homeland {short story} 2 exemplaires
Kingsolver, Barbara Archive 1 exemplaire
Loveroot * 1 exemplaire
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 1 exemplaire
falling house 1 exemplaire
Anthology of Appalachian Writers Volume XV 1 exemplaire
Kingsolver Barbara 1 exemplaire
Barbara Kingsolver 2 Books Collection Set (Demon Copperhead [Hardcover], Poisonwood Bible) (2023) 1 exemplaire
Demon Cooperhead 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Les Fantômes du roi Léopold : Le terreur coloniale dans l'Etat du Congo, 1884-1908 (1998) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 4,794 exemplaires
"Almanach d'un comte des sables" suivi de quelques croquis (1949) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 4,425 exemplaires
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contributeur — 447 exemplaires
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Contributeur — 202 exemplaires
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contributeur — 189 exemplaires
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (1994) — Contributeur — 180 exemplaires
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contributeur — 134 exemplaires
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contributeur — 86 exemplaires
Mid-life Confidential: The Rock Bottom Remainders Tour America with Three Chords and an Attitude (1994) — Contributeur — 66 exemplaires
Did My Mama Like to Dance? and Other Stories about Mothers and Daughters (1994) — Contributeur — 40 exemplaires
The Haves & Have Nots: 30 Stories About Money & Class In America (1999) — Contributeur — 34 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Nom légal
- Kingsolver, Barbara Ellen
- Date de naissance
- 1955-04-08
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Etats-Unis
- Lieu de naissance
- Annapolis, Maryland, Etats-Unis
- Lieux de résidence
- Carlisle, Kentucky, Etats-Unis
Kinshasa, Congo
Greencastle, Indiana, Etats-Unis
Tucson, Arizona, Etats-Unis
Washington County, Virginie, Etats-Unis
Angleterre, Royaume-Uni (tout afficher 8)
France
Île Canarie, Espagne - Études
- University de l'Arizona (MS | Ecologie et biologie de l'évolution)
Université DePauw, Greencastle, Indiana (BS., Biologie, 19 77) - Professions
- Romancière
Poète - Relations
- Hopp, Steven (Epoux)
Hopp, Lily (Fille)
Kingsolver, Camille (Fille) - Organisations
- Rock Bottom Remainders (Groupe de musique composé d'écrivains)
- Prix et distinctions
- 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) (tout afficher 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) - Agent
- Frances Goldin (Frances Goldin Literary Agency)
- Courte biographie
- 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.
Membres
Discussions
"Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver à 75 Books Challenge for 2023 (Mars 29)
August 2019: Barbara Kingsolver à Monthly Author Reads (Décembre 2020)
Barbara Kingsolver: American Author Challenge à 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Décembre 2015)
[The Lacuna] by [[Barbara Kingsolver]] à Orange January/July (Juillet 2011)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 41
- Aussi par
- 31
- Membres
- 87,254
- Popularité
- #122
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 2,144
- ISBN
- 549
- Langues
- 18
- Favoris
- 550
Un bien beau livre, une bien belle histoire. J'ai eu parfois l'impression que le déroulement était assez artificiel - ce garçon fait beaucoup de rencontres plus ou moins probables - mais au final ce n'est pas vraiment gênant, si on se laisse porter par l'histoire, par la narration du héros, qu'importe la vraisemblance.
J'ai également apprécié le rythme du livre: oser des discontinuités, oser des coupures, oser une certaine frustration pour le lecteur qui ne saura pas TOUT, hé ben, fallait oser.… (plus d'informations)