Barbara Kingsolver (Identities and Issues in Literature)

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Barbara Kingsolver grew up in a family of three children in Eastern Kentucky. Her family background of a two-parent home differs from much of her fiction. All three novels to some degree explore the impact of a missing parent.

Kingsolver describes her father as a doctor with a social conscience, often accepting payment in garden vegetables. Her father’s social conscience apparently influences her fiction and nonfiction, for example, her study of women’s roles in the Arizona mine strike of 1983.

Kingsolver’s personal participation in campus...

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