Tue 10/25 @ 7:30PM
Novelist/essayist/poet Barbara Kingsolver has built an impressive career for herself in the past three & a half decades. She published her first novel The Bean Trees, in 1988, and has written a total of nine, including the newly released Demon Copperhead, out this month. But she’s best known for 1998’s The Poisonwood Bible, about a missionary family who move to the Congo, based on her own childhood experience, although her father was a doctor, not a pastor. Her works are infused with her activism and empathy for underdogs: the poor, single parents, undocumented immigrants and people in Appalachia, where she lives.
Kingsolver will be the guest of the Cuyahoga County Public Library’s William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage series, taking place at the Maltz Performing Arts Center in University Circle. Go here for tickets.