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1955 - Born on April 8th in Annapolis, Maryland. American writer and political activist whose best-known novels concern the strength and endurance of the poor and disenfranchised people of the American Southwest.
1988 - Kingsolver's novel The Bean Trees concerns a woman who makes a meaningful life for herself and a young Cherokee girl with whom she moves from rural Kentucky to the Southwest.
1989 - Kingsolver also wrote the nonfictional Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 and High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never and a short-story collection, Homeland and Other Stories.
1990 - In Animal Dreams a disconnected woman finds purpose and moral challenges when she returns to live in her small Arizona hometown.
1991 - Her poetry collection, Another America (Otra America), in English with Spanish translation, primarily concerns the struggles of impoverished women against sexual and political abuse, war, and death.
1993 - Pigs in Heaven, a sequel to her first novel, deals with the protagonist's attempts to defend her adoption of her Native American daughter.
1999 - With The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver expanded her psychic and geographic territory, setting her story about the redemption of a missionary family in the Belgian Congo during the colony's struggle for independence.
1988 - Kingsolver's novel The Bean Trees concerns a woman who makes a meaningful life for herself and a young Cherokee girl with whom she moves from rural Kentucky to the Southwest.
1989 - Kingsolver also wrote the nonfictional Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 and High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never and a short-story collection, Homeland and Other Stories.
1990 - In Animal Dreams a disconnected woman finds purpose and moral challenges when she returns to live in her small Arizona hometown.
1991 - Her poetry collection, Another America (Otra America), in English with Spanish translation, primarily concerns the struggles of impoverished women against sexual and political abuse, war, and death.
1993 - Pigs in Heaven, a sequel to her first novel, deals with the protagonist's attempts to defend her adoption of her Native American daughter.
1999 - With The Poisonwood Bible, Kingsolver expanded her psychic and geographic territory, setting her story about the redemption of a missionary family in the Belgian Congo during the colony's struggle for independence.
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