Barbara Kingsolver | Barbara Kingsolver
Jan.20.2013
It’s always baffled me when a student says as soon as he finds his voice he will feel like a real writer. It seems to me the real challenge is finding your voices. Set fiction aside for a moment. In your day to day encounters, it would be unusual, even odd, to speak in the same voice to everyone...
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Mar.14.2012
My new novel THE HURRICANE LOVER involves a deadly game of cat and mouse that spins out of control during the devastating Gulf Coast hurricane season of 2005. A con artist uses the collapsed infrastructure as cover for identity theft and murder, and she lures her victims through a website that...
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Aug.06.2011
Barbara Kingsolver To Receive Literary Peace Prize
by Judy M.
Barbara Kingsolver has been named the recipient of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award for 2011.
The award, first given in 2006 to celebrate the power of literature to promote peace, was originally called the...
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Jun.12.2010
Barbara Kingsolver's Amazon Sales Shoot up 835 Percent OvernightBy Mark Byrne on Jun 10, 2010 02:27 PM
Over on the Guardian's website, Vanessa Thorpe points out, with surprising specificity, the impact that an Orange Prize has on a writer's sales. After it was announced yesterday that Barbara...
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Apr.05.2010
Back in February, The Guardian ran a piece on “Rules for Writing Fiction” that featured sage advice from famous writers on what to do and what not to do. In general, I hate that type of article, which always makes me feel like I’m doing it all wrong. In this compendium of advice, as in most such...
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Jan.22.2010
I'm honored that two Red Room writers next week will win my short story collections The Middle-Aged Man and the Sea and Months and Seasons as they write about the topic of short fiction. The topic is on my mind in another way as I'm working on a novel. Novels and short stories are very different,...
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Jan.20.2010
Johnny Never Said Goodbye
from
American Postcards
(fictional snapshots about growing up absurd in 1950s America)
Gus’ old man always wore a blue oxford cloth shirt and khaki pants to work. Before leaving for the laboratory at the university, he'd hand-craft a bow in a striped or polka-dotted...
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Dec.30.2009
I often wrote in silence--no music, no radio, no sound distractions. But sometimes, I needed to conjure up a certain mood or feeling to write a new scene or passage. On those days, I'd play a single song over and over again as I wrote, until I felt like I was under the song's spell. For the sad...
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Dec.21.2009
When people ask me how long it took to write the book, I answer: " Six years, 12 years, or 39!" Let me explain the 12 years answer--I started the book in 1997 when I left my job as a corporate lawyer. But at the same time, I started acting school and pursued an acting career. It's hard to...
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Nov.17.2009
I am about two inches taller as I float on the high of last night!
I met Barbara Kingsolver when she was in town promoting her new book, The Lacuna (with a biracial protagonist btw).
It was wonderful to be able to finally thank her in person for awarding me the Bellwether Prize and well,...
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