Barbara Kingsolver
American author, poet and essayist
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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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- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1930-06-09
- Active to
- 1997-11-24
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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.
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