Diego Rivera

...William Shepherd's lonely youth in Mexico through Leon Trotsky's exile and friendship with the artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera in Mexico City, to the communist witch-hunts in 1950s America. The novel's name is derived from a deep...

In this article: Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, Mexico, Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky, and Congo

...on canvas. Here, her landscape includes Shepherd, whom she befriends after he starts mixing plaster for her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, and ends up working as a cook and typist in their house. Shepherd, called Insolito or "Soli" by...

In this article: The Mexican, Frida Kahlo, and Leon Trotsky

...else." But it's a freedom more easily imagined than lived. Leaving his mother to her affairs, Shepherd gets a job mixing plaster for Diego Rivera's murals and joins the household as cook and typist for Rivera, his artist wife, Frida...

In this article: Leon Trotsky, Frida Kahlo, Barbara Kingsolver, Mexico, and North Carolina

...an observer. After getting booted from military school, Harrison embarks on a journey that takes him into the Mexican household of Diego Rivera and his painter wife, Frida Kahlo, and their pal Leon Trotsky in the 1930s. In this section the...

In this article: Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky, World War II, and USA Today

...tonight. The Lacuna is her first novel in a long time. Her publisher says it is about "an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover." I haven't read it...

In this article: Mary Karr, Barbara Kingsolver, Self-help, and Frida Kahlo

...Shepherd, as he grows up in Mexico and falls in with a string of historical figures. He becomes the cook for the communist muralist Diego Rivera and his wife, the artist Frida Kahlo. On cue, Leon Trotsky, on the run from Stalin's assassins,...

In this article: Barbara Kingsolver, Leon Trotsky, The Poisonwood Bible, Socialism, United States, Mexico, Xenophobia, and McCarthyism

...between 1935 and 1950, "The Lacuna" sets its fictional protagonist, Harrison William Shepherd, among such real-life figures as Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Leon Trotsky and - briefly - Richard Nixon. Split between Mexican and American...

In this article: Barbara Kingsolver, Leon Trotsky, The Poisonwood Bible, Asheville, N.C, Democracy, Xenophobia, and Tin

...men) becomes involved with towering personalities: first as plaster-maker for the volatile muralist Diego Rivera, then as cook to Rivera's wife, the indomitable Frida Kahlo, and finally as secretary to Lev Trotsky, who's fleeing the...

In this article: Barbara Kingsolver, Frida Kahlo, Lev Trotsky, Washington, National Humanities Medal, and World War II

Mexico is restoring the murals of Diego Rivera - admirer of Lenin, friend of Trotsky and lover of Frida Kahlo. By John Enders - Special to GlobalPost Published: November 11, 2009 07:05 ET Updated: November 12, 2009 16:50 ET MEXICO...

In this article: Leon Trotsky, Mexico, Mexico City, Frida Kahlo, Porfirio Diaz, Rockefeller Center, Europe, and Ministry of Education

...him near some of the era's larger-than-life figures. A handy cook, he gets a job making plaster for the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera and eventually becomes a part of his household. Rivera and his wife, the painter Frida Kahlo, leap off...

In this article: Barbara Kingsolver, Leon Trotsky, Mexico, Frida Kahlo, The Poisonwood Bible, and Consumerism