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Barbara Kingsolver
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- Born
- 8 April 1955
- Works
- 87
Top works
- Partita
- תורת עץ הרעל
- Animal, vegetable, miracle
- Bean Trees (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Pigs in Heaven (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
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Key facts
- Born
- Barbara Ellen Kingsolver , ( 1955-04-08 ) April 8, 1955 (age 71) , Annapolis, Maryland , U.S.
- Occupation
- Novelist poet essayist
- Education
- DePauw University ( BA ) University of Arizona ( MA )
- Period
- 1988–present
- Genre
- Historical fiction
- Subject
- Social justice, feminism, environmentalism
- Notable works
- The Poisonwood Bible Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Flight Behavior Demon Copperhead
- Spouse
- Joseph Hoffmann (1985–1992) Steven Lee Hopp (1994–present)
- Relatives
- Wendell Roy Kingsolver (father), Virginia Lee (née Henry) Kingsolver (mother)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Barbara
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Annapolis
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- DePauw University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Field of work
- essay
- Official website
- barbarakingsolver.net
- Image
- Barbara Kingsolver (48684513758) (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1955-04-08
- name in native language
- Barbara Kingsolver
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- Barbara Kingsolver
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo; and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.
Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011 and the National Humanities Medal. After winning for The Lacuna in 2010 and Demon Copperhead in 2023, Kingsolver became the first author to win the Women's Prize for Fiction twice. Since 1993, each one of her book titles have been on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barbara Kingsolver” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.