Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (1955-04-08) April 8, 1955 (age 69) 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)
Children
2
Relatives
Wendell Roy Kingsolver (father), Virginia Lee (Henry) Kingsolver (mother)
Website
www.kingsolver.com
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning 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.[1] 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 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.[2][3] Each of her books published since 1993 has been on the New York Times Best Seller list.[4]
Kingsolver was raised in rural Kentucky, lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood, and currently lives in Appalachia. She earned degrees in biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. In 2000, the politically progressive Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize to support "literature of social change".
^"2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists". The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org). Retrieved 4 July 2023.
^Shaffi, Sarah (April 26, 2023). "Three debut novels compete among Women's prize for fiction shortlist". The Guardian. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
^Shaffi, Sarah (2022-06-14). "Barbara Kingsolver wins the Women's prize for fiction for second time". The Guardian. Retrieved 2022-06-14.
^Schuessler, Jennifer (November 13, 2009). "Inside the List". The New York Times. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
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