The November installment of the relaunched The Rumpus Book Club* will be on November 16 at 5pm ET. Host Debbie Millman will be speaking with Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award and New York Times best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver about her brand new book Partita.
You can register for the book club here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R9ExCFc4RcKGhvlBFv3n8A
Barbara Kingsolver grew up in rural Kentucky, earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. She has traveled throughout the world as a researcher and journalist, and lived for nearly two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before moving back to southern Appalachia. Since 2004, she and her husband have raised their family and farmed in southwestern Virginia, in the mountains she considers her home territory.
Her books, in order of publication, are:
Her books, in order of publication, are: The Bean Trees (1988), Homeland (1989), Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike (1989), Animal Dreams (1990), Another America (1992), Pigs in Heaven (1993), High Tide in Tucson (1995), The Poisonwood Bible (1998), Prodigal Summer (2000), Small Wonder (2002), Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands, with photographer Annie Griffiths Belt (2002), Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007), The Lacuna (2009), Flight Behavior (2012), Unsheltered (2018), How To Fly (In 10,000 Easy Lessons) (2020), Demon Copperhead (2022), Coyote’s Wild Home (2023), and Partita, (2026). Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages, she has contributed to more than fifty literary anthologies, and her reviews and articles have appeared in many major U.S. newspapers and magazines.
Demon Copperhead won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was named the Best Book of the 21st Century by a New York Times readers’ poll. Other honors for her work include the National Humanities Medal in 2000; multiple awards from the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association; and selection as the 1999 Pulitzer Prize finalist. Two of Kingsolver’s books have been Oprah Book Club picks, and she is the only two-time winner of Britain’s prestigious Women’s Prize (formerly known as the Orange Prize). She was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and received The National Book Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Partitais the story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human longing for art and beauty.
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R9ExCFc4RcKGhvlBFv3n8Ajoin us on November 16 at
Please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_R9ExCFc4RcKGhvlBFv3n8Ajoin us on November 16 at 5pm ET.
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