A biology major from DePauw University, she was born in 1955 in Kentucky.  
A biology major from DePauw University, she was born in 1955 in Kentucky.  Her early career in journalism can be seen in her essays, collected in the 1995 work High Tide in Tucson.  The Kentucky and Tucson settings of her first novel, The Bean Trees, suggests its autobiographical nature, but since then her works, including Animal Dreams, have taken on more openly environmental themes, something also seen in her latest, Prodigal Summer, which was released in October 2000.  FTP, name this author, who became a bestseller with her story of Georgia missionaries living through three decades of turmoil in postcolonial Congo, The Poisonwood Bible.
A biology major from DePauw University, she was born in 1955 in Kentucky.  
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver