Barbara Kingsolver (Cyclopedia of World Authors)

When Barbara Kingsolver won a Los Angeles Times Book Award for Pigs in Heaven after receiving the 1991 PEN West Award for Animal Dreams, her arrival as a serious writer of contemporary American fiction could hardly be questioned; what is not immediately apparent, perhaps, is the breadth of knowledge and experience in the author who brought these works to life. Kingsolver is the daughter of a physician, she married a chemist, and she has worked as a research assistant in the department of physiology at the University of Arizona. She received a B.A. (magna cum laude)...

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