Background

Hubbell, Sue was born on January 28, 1935 in Kalamazoo. Daughter of B. LeRoy and Marjorie (Sparks) Gilbert.

Education

Bachelor of Arts Southern California, 1957. Medical Science Liaison Society, Drexel University, 1963.

Career

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 St. 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, D.C., and Maine.

She is the sister of the author Bil Gilbert, who also writes about natural history.

Works

Works Gallery

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  • On This Hilltop

    ("I am a beekeeper, but I am also a writer, and some years...)

  • A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them

    ( "The real masterwork that Sue Hubbell has created is he...)

  • A Country Year: Living the Questions

    ( When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell fou...)

  • Broadsides from the Other Orders - A Book of Bugs (UNABRIDGED) 6 Audio Cassettes/9 Hrs.

    (Most of think of bugs as pesky creatures we inadvertently...)

  • Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes by Sue Hubbell Mariner Books, 2002 (Paperback) Paperback

    (Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew Abo...)

  • Waiting for Aphrodite Journeys into the Time Before Bones Unabridged Audiocassette

    (Book by Sue Hubbell)

  • Broadsides From the Other Orders
  • Far-Flung Hubbell:: Essays from the American Road
  • Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs by Hubbell, Sue (1993) Hardcover
  • Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs Hardcover June 8, 1993
  • Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes
  • Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes by Sue Hubbell (2002) Paperback
  • On This Hilltop 1st edition by Hubbell, Sue (1991) Paperback
  • Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones by Hubbell, Sue (2000) Paperback
  • Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes by Hubbell, Sue (2001) Hardcover
  • Broadsides From the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs
  • Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones

Connections

Married Paul G. Hubbell, October 31, 1955 (divorced January 1983). 1 child, Brian; married Frank Arne Sieverts, February 13, 1988. Stepchildren: Lisa, Michael.

father:

B. LeRoy Gilbert

mother:

Marjorie (Sparks) Gilbert

spouse:

Frank Arne Sieverts

spouse:

Paul G. Hubbell

child:

Lisa Hubbell

child:

Brian Hubbell

child:

Michael Hubbell