2014 PEN / Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction winner announced
Ron Childress has been named the winner of the 2014 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction for his manuscript And West Is West. Selected by award judges Terry McMillan, Nancy Pearl, and Kathy Pories, Childress will receive $25,000 and a publishing contract with Algonquin Books.
Annotated Poisonwood Bible to be auctioned, benefiting PEN center
A first-edition copy of The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, annotated, will be auctioned by Christies New York this fall, to benefit The Pen American Center. According to the PEN website, “Seventy-five writers and artists have written or drawn directly in a first edition or a significant catalogue of their own work.” The “extraordinary collection of rare […]
Harvard school bestows 2013 Global Environmental Citizen award
Barbara Kingsolver was the recipient of the Harvard School of Public Health “2013 Global Environmental Citizen Award,” for “outstanding contributions to furthering knowledge about the global environment and promoting awareness about the urgent need to protect it.”
Science in fiction topic of Sweet Briar article
Sweet Briar College Magazine has published an article about Barbara Kingsolver’s meticulous use of science in her fiction, following the author’s address for the 2013 Julia B. Waxter Environmental Forum at the college in March. Kingsolver was invited to speak at the forum after her pre-Flight Behavior research led her to Sweet Briar professor of biology Lincoln […]
Press during European tour for ‘Flight Behaviour’ offers readers new insights
Barbara Kingsolver has returned from a weeks-long tour in Europe for the paperback release of “Flight Behaviour,” published by Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom and Rivages in France. The English portion of the tour included engagements for the Hay Festival of Literature in Wales; the Charleston Festival in Sussex; the London Literature Festival […]
Kingsolver among Women’s Prize short-listed authors for Flight Behavior
Barbara Kingsolver moved from The Women’s Prize long list to short list recently, alongside authors Kate Atkinson, A.M. Homes, Hilary Mantel, Maria Semple and Zadie Smith. The winner will be announced at an award ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in Southbank Centre, London, on June 5. Launched in 1996, the prize (formerly known as […]
Flight Behavior audiobook wins raves
For her reading of the Flight Behavior audiobook, Barbara Kingsolver has been named one of AudioFile magazine’s “Best Voices of the Year 2012.” According to Publisher’s Weekly, “Kingsolver proves an excellent reader of her own work, perfectly conveying both Dellarobia’s gossipy, accented smalltown neighbors and the distinctive Jamaican accent of intellectual Ovid, the butterfly scientist.” See http://reviews.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-212432-6 for the full […]
Kingsolver interviews Al Gore on stage at San Francisco Arts & Lectures
Former Vice President Al Gore discussed his new book, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, in a conversation with Barbara Kingsolver at the San Francico Arts & Lectures Herbst Theatre Feb. 12. Gore now spends the majority of his time as chairman of The Climate Reality Project, a nonprofit devoted to solving the climate crisis. His other […]
Research leads Kingsolver to a date before an audience in Sweet Briar, Va.
The 2013 Julia B. Waxter Environmental Forum at Sweet Briar College featured a reading and conversation with Barbara Kingsolver March 21 and 22. While doing research for her novel Flight Behavior, Kingsolver interviewed Sweet Briar professor of biology Lincoln Brower extensively. Brower is known internationally for his research into and expertise on the Monarch butterfly. The […]
New novel Flight Behavior released in November 2012
Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless young mother on the verge of settling for permanent disappointment, having given up other plans when she became pregnant and married in high school. Now twenty-nine, she lives with flattening deprivation and domestic disharmony on a failing sheep farm in eastern Tennessee. Seeking short-term escape through an obsessive flirtation with […]