Barbara Kingsolver (Great Writers) - Hardcover

Wagner-Martin, Linda; David King Dunaway

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9780791078464: Barbara Kingsolver (Great Writers)

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ISBN 10: 0791078469 ISBN 13: 9780791078464

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 2006

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The Great Writers series explores the lives of some of the most talked about literary figures of the past half-century. Kentucky native Kingsolver gained recognition as a contemporary author for works such as The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible. Ages 15+.

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About the Author:

Linda Wagner-Martin is Hanes Professor of English and Comparative Literature at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. She was the 2011 recipient of the Hubbell Medal for lifetime service in American literature (sponsored by the MLA), and has received the Guggenheim fellowship, the senior National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, the Bunting Institute fellowship, and awards from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Philosophical Association and others. She has published more than fifty-five books of criticism, some edited, including "Sylvia Plath: A Biography "(1987) and ""Favored Strangers": Gertrude Stein and Her Family" (1995), as well as studies of Ernest Hemingway, Zelda Fitzgerald, Barbara Kingsolver, and others. Recent books are "A History of American Literature from 1950 to the Present" (2013) and "Toni Morrison and the Maternal" (2014).

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