The Author - 2008
Barbara Kingsolver grew up in eastern Kentucky. She attended DePauw University in Indiana where she majored in biology. She received a Masters of Science degree in biology and ecology at the University of Arizona and in 1995 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from DePauw University after her publication of High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never.
The Bean Trees was published in 1988. The novel has won several awards including the Enoch Pratt Library Youth-to-Youth Books Award, the American Library Association Notable Book, and the New York Times Notable Book Award. She is the author of several novels including Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven, The Poisonwood Bible and Prodigal Summer. Kingsolver has also authored a series of stories, essays and poetry collections called High Tide in Tucson, Homeland, Small Wonder, Holding the Line, and Another America.
Barbara Kingsolver lives with her husband and two daughters near the mountains outside of Tucson, Arizona.