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Barbara Kingsolver
Sign in to saveAmerican author, poet and essayist
Person · Open Library
- 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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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1930-06-09
- Active to
- 1997-11-24
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 560
- Total plays
- 18,261
Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American writer. She has written, or collaborated on, 12 books, most of which are novels, but including some poems, short stories and essays. Community, economic injustice and cultural difference inform the themes of Kingsolver's work. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Barbara+Kingsolver">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,403x
- International Physical Activity Questionnaire: 12-Country Reliability and Validity
· 2003 · cited 17,176x
- Transcript assembly and quantification by RNA-Seq reveals unannotated transcripts and isoform switching during cell differentiation
· 2010 · cited 13,879x
- Mapping and quantifying mammalian transcriptomes by RNA-Seq
· 2008 · cited 11,884x
- The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions.
· 2001 · cited 10,399x
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Quotes
- “A wife is the earth itself, changing hands, bearing scars.”
- “Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.”
- “The march of human progress seemed mainly a matter of getting over that initial shock of being here.”
- “At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I lived in. But at another point, much earlier I think, I'd quietly begun to hope for nothing at all in the way of love, so as not to be disappointed. It works. It gets to be a habit.”
- “He was wounded. I suppose some sharp thing in me wanted to sting him, for making me need him now. After he'd once cut me to the edge of what a soul will bear. But that was senseless.... I looked at this grown-up Loyd and tried to make sense of him, seeing clearly that he was too sweet to survive around me. I would go to my grave expecting the weapon in the empty hand.”
- “Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.”
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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
- Official website
- barbarakingsolver.net
- Image
- Barbara Kingsolver (48684513758) (cropped).jpg
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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.