Sue Hubbell

Sue Hubbell (born 1935) is an American author. 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) ISBN 0-395-88324-5
• A Country Year: Living the Questions.  New York: Random House (1986) ISBN 0-394-54603-2
• Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs.  New York: Random House (1993) ISBN 0-679-40062-1
• Far-flung Hubbell.  New York: Random House (1995) ISBN 0-679-42833-X
• From Here to There and Back Again.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2004) ISBN 0-472-11419-0
• Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes . (2001)
• On This Hilltop.  New York: Ballantine Books (1991) ISBN 0-345-37306-5
• Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1999) ISBN 0-395-83703-0

Sue Hubbell was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She studied biology. She was a librarian at Brown University until 1972, when she and her husband moved to the Missouri Ozarks. 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.

See also

• A bibliography of her books, articles, essays, introductions, forewords, and reviews
• Walter B. Hubbell (1851–1932), American writer

External links

• Works by or about Sue Hubbell in libraries (WorldCat catalog)