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 ''

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'' ''Book Review'' as Notable Books of the Year. She also wrote for ''

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'', the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', ''Smithsonian'' and ''Time'', and was a frequent contributor to the "Hers" column of ''The New York Times''. Sue Hubbell was born and raised in

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. She studied biology and was a librarian at

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until 1972, when she and her husband moved to the

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. Hubbell also lived in

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, and

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. 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

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, from complications of dementia.

Publications

Books by Sue Hubbell include:Library of Congress
/ref> *''A Country Year: Living the Questions.'' New York: Random House (1986) *''A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them.'' Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1988) *''On This Hilltop.'' New York: Ballantine Books (1991) *''Broadsides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs.'' New York: Random House (1993) *''Far-flung Hubbell.'' New York: Random House (1995) *''Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys into the Time Before Bones.'' Boston: Houghton Mifflin (1999) *''Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew About Genes.'' (2001) *''From Here to There and Back Again.'' Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press (2004)

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External links

''A bibliography of her books, articles, essays, introductions, forewords, and reviews''
1935 births 2018 deaths American women writers Writers from Missouri Writers from Kalamazoo, Michigan People from Milbridge, Maine 21st-century American women American women librarians {{US-writer-stub