Sue Hubbell 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. The author has also written for The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian

Smithsonian (magazine)

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 and Time

Time (magazine)

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. She 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 (1998) 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

Kalamazoo, Michigan

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, Michigan

Michigan

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. She was a librarian at Brown University

Brown University

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 until 1972, when she and her husband moved to the Missouri

Missouri

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 Ozarks. She has since lived in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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, and Maine

Maine

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. She is the sister of the author Bil Gilbert, who also writes about natural history.

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