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Kim Barnes (born 1958 in Lewiston, Idaho) is a contemporary American author of fiction, memoir, and personal essays. She served as Poet Laureate of Idaho. Life [ edit ]
Mar 21, 2000 · Kim Barnes ended her widely-acclaimed 1996 memoir In the Wilderness at her high school graduation. Hungry for the World picks up where that left off with her period of young-adult rebellion against her parents' conservative lifestyle and Pentacostal faith.
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Jan 1, 2008 · Kim Barnes. 3.46. 520 ratings112 reviews. With her acclaimed memoir In the Wilderness Kim Barnes brought us to the great forests of Idaho, where geography and isolation shape love and family. Now, in her luminous new novel, she returns to this territory, offering a powerful tale of hope and idealism, faith and madness.
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In this interview conducted by Emily Cordo, Kim Barnes discusses the roles that trauma and archetype play in literary fiction and memoir. Certain stories, according to Barnes, are rooted in human experience at a fundamental, even genetic, level.
Feb 17, 1997 · Kim Barnes begins her memoir, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Country, with a flashback to the woods where she began her life in an almost idyllic environment. Then she cuts to the alcoholism, poverty and abuse of her father’s mother’s childhood as context for the story to come.
Kimberly Ann Barnes Arico (born August 9, 1970) is an American women's basketball coach and the current head coach of the Michigan Wolverines women's basketball team. Previously, she was head coach of the St. John's University women's basketball team.
Kim Barnes is the author of two memoirs and two previous novels, including A Country Called Home, which received the 2009 PEN Center USA Literary Award in fiction and was named a best book of 2008 by The Washington Post, the Kansas City Star, and The Oregonian.
