She was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 1935. After graduating in journalism at the University of Southern California she worked as a librarian and librarian, while developing her commitment as an activist for peace in various organizations. In 1973, however, he decided to radically change his life: to abandon his work and urban life, reduce his income and also his expenses, so that, in addition, the taxes he should pay to a government that continued to protect the unjustifiable War were reduced. of Vietnam. He then goes to live in a remote place in the Ozarks Mountains, in Missouri, where he creates a small beekeeping business that respects animal welfare and the environment. There he writes A year in the woods, considered today a classic book called nature writing and the movement of degrowth, and that has received countless accolades over several decades. She is also the author of books such as A Book of Bees: And How to Keep Them (1989), Broad Sides from the Other Orders: A Book of Bugs (1993), Far-Flung Hubbell: Essays from the American Road (1995), Waiting for Aphrodite: Journeys Into the Time Before Bones (1999), Shrinking the Cat: Genetic Engineering Before We Knew about Genes (2001) or From Here to There and Back Again (2004). Similarly, Hubbell has been a regular contributor to publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Times Magazine, Harper's or Smithsonian.