Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver at the 2019 National Book Festival
Born	(1955-04-08) April 8, 1955 (age 69) Annapolis, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist poet essayist
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Arizona
Period	1988–present
Genre	Historical fiction
Subject	Social justice, feminism, environmentalism
Notable works	The Poisonwood Bible Animal, Vegetable, Miracle Flight Behavior
Spouse	Joseph Hoffmann (1985–1992) Steven Hopp (1994–present)
Children	Camille Lily
Website
www.kingsolver.com

Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist and poet.

In 2000 she received the National Humanities Medal.^[1] In 2011 she was given the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her life's work.^[2]

Her novel, The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pultizer Prize in Fiction for 1999.^[3]

Books

• The Bean Trees (1988)
• Homeland (1989)
• Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike (1989)
• Animal Dreams (1990)
• Another America (1992)
• Pigs in Heaven (1993)
• High Tide in Tucson (1995)
• The Poisonwood Bible (1998)
• Prodigal Summer (2000)
• Small Wonder (2002)
• Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands (2002)
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007)
• The Lacuna (2009)
• Flight Behavior (2012)
• Unsheltered (2018)
• How To Fly (In 10,000 Easy Lessons) (2020)
• Demon Copperhead, 2023^[4]

Related pages

• List of poets from North America

References

1. "White House Announces the 2000 National Humanities Medalists". The National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2023-01-23.
2. "Award Winners – Dayton Literary Peace Prize". Retrieved 2023-01-23.
3. "Fiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2022. Retrieved January 23, 2023.
4. https://www.nrk.no/anmeldelser/anmeldelse_-_demon-copperhead_-av-barbara-kingsolver-1.16838913. Retrieved 2024-05-02