Biography

Barbara Kingsolver was innate April 8, 1955 in Annapolis Maryland. She grew higher inside Nicholas County, Kentucky, "in the middle of an alfalfa field in the part of eastern Kentucky that lies between the opulent horse farms and the impoverished coal fields." [http://www.kingsolver.com/about/about.asp]

Kingsolver graduated from either DePauw University in 1977 where she majored in biology. She pursued postgraduate studies at a University of Arizona in the early 1980s, in which she had her Masters of Science. Around 1985 she became a mercenary journalist, when continuing to write fiction by nighttime. Kingsolver began writing The Bean Trees in the closet when you took a bout of insomnia. She too became active within organizations advocating social vary & humanitarian goals.

Inside 1997 Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize which is awarded in potentially-numbered years to writing that supports social vary. A prize is limited to authors world health organization use there are no former major works published.

She divides her instance between Tucson, Arizona, and Kentucky, and has spent periods of instance living around more countries - as a tyke in the Congo, in which The Poisonwood Bible was set. She is married to Stephen Hopp, a academician at the University of Arizona, with whom she at times collaborates in musical theater & literary projects.[http://magazine.audubon.org/features0009/scarlet.html]

Literary themes
Social justice is an important theme in the operate The Bean Trees, and throughout her novels. Therein novel the independent character, Taylor, meets a personal of Guatemalan immigrants, who show else you how it were forced to leave their girl behind to escape torture & demise in their house united states.

In The Poisonwood Bible she also examines a role of the United States & more political powers around compound & post-colonial Africa. She is quite critical of American governments.

Native Americans are a large theme inside many of Kingsolver's books & two or three of her verse form, especially on to a bias against Indigene Americans by whiten settlers & the Trail of Tears. Her book Pigs around Heaven (the sequel to The Bean Trees) features Turtle, the Cherokee child who was abandoned & left to Taylor. This book highlights a conditions of Indigene Americans presently inside Oklahoma, & a continuation of their traditional ways despite impoverishment & continuing inequality.

Poverty is the focus of several of her books like Holding a Line, a book all about the Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. Taylor, a independent character of Bean Trees & Pigs around Heaven, grew higher within impoverishment & has to hard-hitting struggle against it.

Around Kingsolver's book of verse form, A second Us, social justice occurs as central theme.

Books

The Bean Trees, 1988 Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, 1989 Homeland and Other Stories, 1989 Animal Dreams, 1990 Another America, 1992 Pigs in Heaven, 1993 High Tide in Tucson, 1995 The Poisonwood Bible, 1998 Prodigal Summer, 2000 Small Wonder, 2002 ''Last Stand: America's virgin lands, 2002 (with photographer Annie Griffiths)