Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winnerIt was the winter of 2001, and the popular novelist Barbara Kingsolver was facing a deluge of hate mail. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks she had written a series of opinion pieces for US newspapers, urging contemplation and debate, and her ideas (the suggestion, for instance, that "in critical times, our leaders need most to be influenced by the moderating force of dissent") were proving seriously
