Sue Hubbell

Suzanne Hubbell (née Gilbert; January 28, 1935 – October 13, 2018) was 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 also wrote for The New Yorker, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Smithsonian and Time,[1] and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of The New York Times.[2]

Sue Hubbell was born and raised in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She studied biology and was a librarian at Brown University until 1972, when she and her husband moved to the Missouri Ozarks.[3] Hubbell also lived in Washington, D.C., and Milbridge, Maine.[4][5] She was the sister of the author Bil Gilbert, who also writes about natural history. Hubbell died on October 13, 2018, at the age of 83 in Bar Harbor, Maine, from complications of dementia.[6]

  1. ^ Time magazine archive
  2. ^ Publishers Weekly Archived 2007-03-10 at the Wayback Machine, 28 February 1986
  3. ^ Missouri Conservationist Online Archived 2005-12-30 at the Wayback Machine Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1996
  4. ^ Key West Literary Seminar Archived 2006-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Wonders of Nature Celebrated in New Book - The Ellsworth American Retrieved 2017-04-28.
  6. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (18 October 2018). "Sue Hubbell, Who Wrote of Bees and Self-Reliance, Dies at 83 - The New York Times". The New York Times.