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Kingsolver, Barbara - American writer, b. Annapolis, Md.; grad. DePauw Univ. (B.S., 1977), Univ. of Arizona (M.S.). 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


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    Barbara Kingsolver, in The Progressive » Read Now

    by Robin Epstein. 5 pgs.

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    ...Barbara Kingsolver by Robin Epstein In...wide-ranging essays, High Tide in Tucson, Barbara Kingsolver describes a trip to Phoenixs Heard...were drinking a lot of Cokes."...
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    Barbara Kingsolver: A Critical Companion » Read Now

    by Mary Jean DeMarr. 156 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    Barbara Kingsolver wears the feminist mantle with joyful pride, and her spirited embrace of political themes is contagious. Responding to richly-drawn heroines along their journeys to do right by family and community, readers embrace Kingsolver's political novels, making them bestsellers. From the...
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    Backtalk: Women Writers Speak Out: Interviews ("Barbara Kingsolver" begins on p. 143) » Read Now

    by Donna Perry. 348 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This book contains fifteen in-depth interviews with important contemporary women writers from the United States, England, Ireland, and the Caribbean. The authors, who come from different racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds and sexual orientations, are all committed to telling the stories of...
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    Old Chestnuts, in Book » Read Now

    by Barbara Kingsolver. 5 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Old Chestnuts by Barbara Kingsolver GARNETT could still remember...in rural Kentucky in 1955, Barbara Kingsolver now divides her time between...new books of the autumn...
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    A Good Farmer, in The Nation » Read Now

    by Barbara Kingsolver. 5 pgs.

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    ...A Good Farmer. by Barbara Kingsolver Sometime around my fortieth birthday I began an earnest...to others to say. But it does move, and it works for us. Barbara Kingsolver...
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    The Way to Nueva Vida: In the Yucatan, Where Jaguars Lurk and Pyramids Poke out of the Forests, Humans Are Learning to Live Peaceably with Nature, in Sierra » Read Now

    by Barbara Kingsolver. 5 pgs.

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    ...peaceably with nature. by Barbara Kingsolver THE SUN HAD SET, but the...HELPS SAVE A BIG CATS SPOTS. BARBARA KINGSOLVER stood on high ground and saw...site at...
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    The Literary West: An Anthology of Western American Literature ("'Why I Am a Danger to the Public' from Homeland and Other Stories (1989)" by Barbara Kingsolver begins on p. 396) » Read Now

    by Thomas J. Lyon. 450 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Mountains 384 Barbara Kingsolver "Why I Am a Danger to the Public...Richard Ford b. 1944 , Barbara Kingsolver b. 1955 , Jim Harrison b...Ventura to the vicinity of Santa...
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    Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender ("Mothers and Children in Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees (1988)" begins on p. 26) » Read Now

    by Jerilyn Fisher, Ellen S. Silber. 358 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    This unique reference offers alternate approaches to reading traditional literature, as well as suggestions for expanding the canon to include more gender sensitive works. Covering 96 of the most frequently taught works of fiction, essays offer teachers, librarians, and students fresh insights into the female perspective in literature.
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    Domesticating the Car: Women's Road Trips, in Studies in American Fiction » Read Now

    by Deborah Clarke. 28 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Masons In Country (1985) and Barbara Kingsolvers The Bean Trees (1988) illustrate...empower women, even today. Barbara Kingsolver, however, unsettles the masculine...Motor...
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    Compelling Ties: Landscape, Community, and Sense of Place, in PJE. Peabody Journal of Education » Read Now

    by Vicky Newman. 14 pgs.

    Collections: Education, Entire Library
    ...these connections are made in Barbara Kingsolvers novel Animal Dreams ( 1990...examine--through the context of Kingsolver Animal Dreams and through...narrator in Animal...
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    The Mark of Africa, in World and I » Read Now

    by Roberta Rubenstein. Multiple pgs.

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    ...ROBERTA RUBENSTEIN Barbara Kingsolver imaginatively considers what...womens fiction. When novelist Barbara Kingsolver was asked by a reader whether...answered at last...

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