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Harrison Shepherd nació en Estados Unidos, pero cuando aún era un niño tuvo que irse a México tras los pasos de una madre hermosa e insegura, siempre en busca del hombre ideal. Luego, un día, casi por casualidad, acabó trabajando en la cocina de la casa de Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo, y de los fogones pasó al despacho de Rivera y a los rincones oscuros de la mansión, donde nació una intimidad peculiar con Frida. Fue en esa casa donde Shepherd conoció a León Trotsky, un gran líder político que en aquel momento era un hombre que malvivía en el exilio y temía por su propia vida. De vuelta a Norteamérica, Shepherd, ese hombre que había sido cocinero, secretario y confidente de personajes tan ilustres, se dedicó a la escritura y dejó un diario que llenaba su propia laguna —ese espacio ambiguo entre lo que somos y lo que mostramos a los demás— con palabras reveladoras, el testimonio de su vida y de los hechos que marcaron el siglo xx.
About the Author
Barbara Kingsolver grew up in rural Kentucky and earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona before becoming a freelance writer and author. At various times in life she has lived in England, France, and the Canary Islands, and has worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico, and South America. She spent two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to southwestern Virginia where she currently resides. Her fifteen books include short stories, essay collections, poetry, and seven novels. In the first decade of the new millennium, following her well-known work The Poisonwood Bible, she published two novels (prior to this one) and three non-fiction books including Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a narrative of her family's locavore year that helped launch a modern transition in America's food culture. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than two dozen languages, and has been adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation.Kingsolver was named one the most important writers of the 20th Century by Writers Digest. In 2000 she received the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts. Critical acclaim for her books includes multiple awards from the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, among many others. The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize, and won the national book award of South Africa, before being named an Oprah Book Club selection. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle won numerous prizes including the James Beard award. The Lacuna won Britain's prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010, and last year she was awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work.In 1998, Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize for fiction, the nation's largest prize for an unpublished first novel, which has helped to establish the careers of more than a half dozen new literary voices. Through a recent agreement the prize has now become the PEN / Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.Barbara has two daughters, Camille and Lily. Her husband, Steven Hopp, teaches environmental studies. Since June 2004, Barbara and her family have lived on a farm in southern Appalachia, where they raise an extensive vegetable garden and Icelandic sheep.
