Background
Hubbell, Sue was born on January 28, 1935 in Kalamazoo. Daughter of B. LeRoy and Marjorie (Sparks) Gilbert.
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When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small Ozarks farm. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world. She began to write, challenging herself to tell the absolute truth about her life and the things that she cared about. The result is one of the best-loved books ever written about life on the land, about a woman finding her way in middle age.
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"I am a beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years ago I sat down at a typewriter to experiment with words, to try to tease out of the amorphous, chaotic and worldess part of myself the reason why I was staying on this hilltop in the Ozarks." Why indeed? For Sue Hubbell, a former college librarian who moved to the country, found she spent much of her time digging manure out of the barn or trying to fix the rear end of the truck -- that is, in addition to the hay making, corn planting, bee swarming, vegetable gardening, tick picking, log splitting, chick hatching, truck towing, and snake alerts that overwhelmed her early days in her new home. These essays from down on her Missouri farm are alight with mischief, poking gentle fun at city snobs, Ozark men, and Hubbell's own experience as an apprentice Ozarker. They also chart the first forays Hubbell made into writing. As she says herself, "They were the beginning of a writing life. One of several I have lived." "A beautifully blossoming writer . . . Hubbell watches language as sagaciously as she eyes nature." -- Washington Post Book World
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Most of think of bugs as pesky creatures we inadvertently squish beneath our feet. Under the microscope of Sue Hubbell's keen eye there emerges a world we rarely take the time to see. Noting in her opening chapter that for every pound of us there are 300 pounds of bugs, Hubbell approaches 13 quirky comrades of our natural world by asking one simple question, "What are they up to?" In addition to layman's expertise, Hubbell draws on the knowledge of various entomologists - a gregarious crew who disturb the studied calm of Capitol Hill restaurants by mimicking a katydid's song or the mating habits of the ladybug.
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"The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is her life," David Quammen wrote in the New York Times. This book is, like its author, a unique achievement. Weaving a vivid portrait of her own life and her bees' lives through the seasons, Hubbell writes "about bees to be sure, but also about other things: the important difference between loneliness and solitude . . . the accommodating of oneself to nature" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
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Hubbell, Sue was born on January 28, 1935 in Kalamazoo. Daughter of B. LeRoy and Marjorie (Sparks) Gilbert.
Bachelor of Arts Southern California, 1957. Medical Science Liaison Society, Drexel University, 1963.
Her books A Country Year and A Book of Bees were selected by the New York Times Book Review as Notable Books of the Year. She has also written for The New Yorker, the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian and Time, and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of the New York Times. Books by Sue Hubbell include:
A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1988)
A Country Year: Living the Questions.
New York: Random House (1986)
Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs. New York: Random House (1993)
Far-flung Hubbell.
New York: Random House (1995) X
From Here to There and Back Again. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2004)
Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes.
(2001)
On This Hilltop.
New York: Ballantine Books (1991)
Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones. Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1999)
Sue Hubbell was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She studied biology. She has since lived in Washington, District of Columbia, and Maine.
She is the sister of the author Bil Gilbert, who also writes about natural history.
("I am a beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years...)
( "The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is he...)
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(Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew Abo...)
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Married Paul G. Hubbell, October 31, 1955 (divorced January 1983). 1 child, Brian; married Frank Arne Sieverts, February 13, 1988. Stepchildren: Lisa, Michael.
