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 […]
Library Journal review of Flight Behavior
Dellarobia Turnbow is in a perpetual state of fight or flight. Married at 17 to kind, dull Cub, she finds even the satisfaction of motherhood small consolation for the stultifying existence on her in-laws’ struggling Tennessee sheep farm. When a fluke of nature upends the monotony of her life, Dellarobia morphs into the church’s poster child […]
Kingsolver among speakers at Book Expo America kick-off event
New York City, June 5, 2012—Barbara Kingsolver joined Master of Ceremonies Stephen Colbert and authors Junot Diaz and Jo Nesbo on stage at the Book Expo America “Authors Breakfast” June 5, 2012. To learn more about the event or to read interviews Kingsolver gave while at the BEA, click: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/52279-pw-talks-with-barbara-kingsolver.html http://lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2012/06/bea-kicks-off-with-colbert-diaz-kingsolver-and-nesbo/ http://www.vulture.com/2012/06/stephen-colbert-and-his-many-penis-euphemisms.html
Susan Nussbaum announced winner of 2012 PEN / Bellwether Prize
New York City, June 5, 2012—PEN American Center, the largest branch of the world’s oldest literary and human rights organization, joined Barbara Kingsolver, founder of the Bellwether Prize, and Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, a division of Workman Publishing, to announce Susan Nussbaum as the winner of the 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. […]
Kingsolver reads from new work at Lexington, Ky., conference
Barbara Kingsolver was the keynote speaker for the Books-in-Progress Conference June 8 and 9, sponsored by The Carnegie Center in Lexington, Ky. She read from new work June 8 at 7 p.m., at the Lexington Convention Center’s Bluegrass Ballroom Atrium. The conference offered writing and publishing workshops, as well as one-on-one meetings between writers and […]