Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Kingsolver wrote Animal Dreams one-handed. She had to learn to type that way because her first child was nursing the whole time. (Source)
Like Codi, Kingsolver was trained as a biologist. We guess that explains why she knows words like dioecious. (Source)
Almost fifteen years after sending Codi home to Grace, Arizona, Kingsolver made her own way back home to rural Kentucky with her family and "the polite, inflected accent that is my first language." (Source)