Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
After writing Pigs in Heaven (1993)—the sequel to The Bean Trees, which looks more closely at controversies surrounding the adoption of Native children—Barbara Kingsolver said: "I had the option and the obligation to deal with the issue because the moral question was completely ignored in the first book." (Source.)
Barbara Kingsolver once advised young writers that living long enough is a sure route to better writing. She said: "If you're a young writer and a smoker, you should probably quit, because that will increase your odds of getting old enough to accumulate wisdom." Think that has anything to do with that "obligation" idea? ( Source.)
Barbara Kingsolver once worked on a miniseries with the same folks who developed the HBO series Rome, but the project never got off the ground. Probably because there's not much wisteria in Rome. (Source.)
Barbara Kingsolver once played in a rock band called The Rock Bottom Remainders. Rock on! (Source.)
According to Barbara Kingsolver, Wikipedia once reported that she "belonged to a terrorist group that had attempted to assassinate President Ford!" Now that's open editing for you! Or is it…(yes, it is). (Source.)
Barbara Kingsolver once did graduate-level research in biology at the University of Arizona, where she studied the kinship networks of termites! Yes, termites. Is that something like rhizobia? (Source.)