Barbara Kingsolver Summary

Biography EssayBarbara Kingsolver renews the Western literary landscape by debunking the myths of individuality and self-determination. Her heroines lead meaningful lives by relying on compromise and ... Read more

In the following review, Steinberg offers positive evaluation of Holding the Line. Occasionally we look beyond the myopic confines of academic writing, and find a book that enriches our understandi... Read more

In the following review, Roses offers qualified praise for Another America. This is the first volume of poetry for Barbara Kingsolver, whose previous books include The Bean Trees (1988), Animal Dre... Read more

In the following interview, Kingsolver discusses her life, literary beginnings, and Pigs in Heaven. Barbara Kingsolver arrived for lunch so promptly as to be early, a refreshing gesture from someon... Read more

In the following review, Scott offers favorable assessment of Pigs in Heaven. The pigs in question are stars. Six of them were bad Cherokee boys to whom their parents, to teach them a lesson, fed p... Read more

In the following review, Mahin offers positive assessment of Homeland and Other Stories. Barbara Kingsolver's Homeland and Other Stories is about community and generations and families and r... Read more

In the following interview, Kingsolver comments on her life, work, and sociopolitical preoccupations. Across the scorched desert toward the lower Tucson Mountains, up a gravel-covered dirt road ide... Read more