Card catalog entry from the Library of Congress

Blurbs from the book cover

Transcript of bookclub@ket program

Discussion questions from KET

HarperCollins reader’s guide

Barnes and Noble review

Amazon.com readers’ reviews

Amazon.com information page for the 1998 mass-market paperback

What If All Kentucky Reads the Same Book? was KET’s 2001 statewide reading project built around The Bean Trees.

I invent people from scratch. I think about what they’ll need to do, then work backwards, inventing entire life histories that will render them believable. Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver official web site

Biography

Favorite books and authors by Barbara Kingsolver

In her own words—thoughts about writing, and about growing up in Kentucky

More Kingsolver resources

Listen to Noah Adams of NPR interview Kingsolver about her 2000 book, Prodigal Summer. Scroll down to the bottom of the page for the audio link. [RealPlayer^TM help]

Signature is a KET production profiling six Kentucky writers.