Frida Kahlo

...Lacuna" goes from Harrison 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...

In this article: Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible, Diego Rivera, Mexico, Leon Trotsky, and Congo

Harrison William Shepherd is the main character in Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna (Harper, $26.99), but Frida Kahlo is the star. And Kahlo wouldn't have had it any other way. The Mexican surrealist is as compelling in this work of...

In this article: Diego Rivera, The Mexican, and Leon Trotsky

...gets a job mixing plaster for Diego Rivera's murals and joins the household as cook and typist for Rivera, his artist wife, Frida Kahlo, and later for their guest, the exiled Communist leader Leon Trotsky. In this incendiary household,...

In this article: Leon Trotsky, Diego Rivera, Barbara Kingsolver, Mexico, and North Carolina

Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky figure into Barbara Kingsolver's latest novel. Sprawling, ambitious but often somewhat impersonal, Barbara Kingsolver's new novel, The Lacuna, lacks the warmth and sweetness of Prodigal Summer and...

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

...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 yet, obviously, but I...

In this article: Mary Karr, Barbara Kingsolver, Self-help, and Diego Rivera

...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, comes to stay. Shepherd is on hand to...

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

...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 murderous Stalinist regime. Young...

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

...from military service in the Second World War). On his return to Mexico he finds his way on to the household staff of Rivera and Frida Kahlo - a much more exciting place to spend the revolutionary 1930s than the Potomac Academy. At their...

In this article: Barbara Kingsolver, Frida, Leon Trotsky, The Poisonwood Bible, Mexico, Individualism, Howler monkey, and Diego Rivera

...novel since The Prodigal Summer (2000), is set in Mexico and the USA, and includes historical figures such as artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo and exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, who was assassinated in Mexico City in 1940.

In this article: John Grisham, Fancy Nancy, USA Today, Barbara Kingsolver, Halloween, World War II, Diego Rivera, and Doubleday

...an American father, goes to Mexico as a youngster with his mother after his father takes off. A serendipitous meeting with artist Frida Kahlo lands him, as a teenager, a job as plaster-mixer for Kahlo's husband, the painter Diego Rivera.

In this article: Barbara Kingsolver, Diego Rivera, The Poisonwood Bible, Mexico, and United States