Background
Ingrid Hill was born in New York City, New York, United States. She is a child of Swedish-American sea captain and also spent much of her childhood in New Orleans.
Ingrid Hill's portrait.
Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Ingrid Hill received a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.
Iowa City, IA 52242, United States
Ingrid Hill received a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670826162/?tag=2022091-20
1989
(Ambitious and accomplished, Ursula, Under is, most of all...)
Ambitious and accomplished, Ursula, Under is, most of all, wonderfully entertaining - a daring saga of culture, history, and heredity.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1565123883/?tag=2022091-20
2004
Ingrid Hill was born in New York City, New York, United States. She is a child of Swedish-American sea captain and also spent much of her childhood in New Orleans.
Ingrid Hill received a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa.
Hill, who has twelve children, including two sets of twins, began her writing career as a short story writer. Her first published book is a collection of these stories titled Dixie Church Interstate Blues. Hill's debut novel, Ursula, Under, spans more than 2,000 years and the lives of the ancestors of one family. The central figure in the story is two-year-old Ursula, daughter of Justin Wong and Annie Maki, both of whom suffered traumatic childhoods, and who struggle to raise their daughter in a trailer on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
Washington Post Book World reviewer Michael Anft felt that "some of the characters would work as main players in novels of their own" and concluded: "ultimately, Hill embraces a crucial Big Novel component. Her book asks, and at length answers, a Big Question: What is a life worth? The miracle of Ursula, Under is that it reminds us that while a good story - told with all the weight of the world and through skeins of time - might not be as indispensable as a beloved child, it can relate the value of that child, and through its narrative gift help us recall why life is worth the trouble."
(Ambitious and accomplished, Ursula, Under is, most of all...)
2004Quotations: "Audience response to the size of my old-fashioned family tends both to distract from the text at hand and to reinforce the undeniable source of my fiction, for which I am very grateful."
Ingrid Hill was left as a single mom with eleven children, She had to get a career to support them, so Hill went back to graduate school to be able to teach literature and writing at the college level. Hill says writing looks like parenting - "Parenting demands creativity: so does the writing. Parenting pays back great emotional and spiritual rewards - and also gives us grief. So does the writing. Both are manifestations of the great spirit of life itself."
Ingrid Hill was married two times and has 12 children.
Benjamin and Luke are identical twins.
Luke and Benjamin are identical twins.
Annika and Britt are fraternal twins.
Britt and Annika are fraternal twins.
