In "Washington Post Book World" (08/02/1998), Rachel Hartigan says that anyone would likes Michard's book might also like the novels of Barbara Kingsolver.
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Kingsolver calls Eliot her "literary heroine." ("New York Times Magazine", 10/11/1998)
Kingsolver calls Friedan's classic work "a book that changed my life." ("New York Times Magazine", 10/11/1998)
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"It took me some 30 years and several published novels to begin calling myself a novelist, but finally now I can do that, I own up to it..., chortling to think that the business of making up stories can be called an honest living....I tinker and bang away with the confidence of an experienced mechanic, knowing that patience and effort will get this troubled engine overhauled and this baby will hum."
"It's all about accessibility. That's why I write in English as opposed to some sort of highfalutin English that's incomprehensible. I really believe that complex ideas can be put across in simple language. And a good plot never hurt anybody. It doesn't cost you in literary terms to give your readers a reason to turn the page."
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Barbara Kingsolver grew up in rural Kentucky in a family that encouraged reading and nature study, but strongly discouraged TV-watching. She studied biology at DePauw University, then spent a few years working in Europe. Curious about the American Southwest, she came home to settle in Tucson, where she eventually pursued graduate studies in ecology at the University of Arizona. After graduate school she worked as a scientific writer and a freelance journalist and, eventually, became a full-time more...
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04/08/1955 Kentucky, Southeastern States, Southern States, United States,
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One of my favorites ever.......please read........