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Barbara Kingsolver

Born

in Annapolis, Maryland, The United States

April 08, 1955

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http://barbarakingsolver.net/

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Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

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Barbara Ellen Kingsolver 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. 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 Copperh ...more

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The Heart of Appalachia: Barbara Kingsolver writes for Southern Living

Barbara’s story of Appalachian heartbreak and hope after Hurricane Helene is out in the May issue of Southern Living. She writes honestly about climate change, asking the magazine’s millions of readers to contemplate this frightening new kind of weather, and our responsibility to the future. You can read the article here: Heart of Appalachia

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Barbara Kingsolver’s books

Average rating: 4.17 · 2,432,838 ratings · 183,306 reviews · 78 distinct works • Similar authors

	Demon Copperhead 4.47 avg rating — 775,640 ratings — published 2022 — 83 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Poisonwood Bible 4.11 avg rating — 790,792 ratings — published 1998 — 143 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bean Trees (Greer Family, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 173,752 ratings — published 1988 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prodigal Summer 4.05 avg rating — 127,408 ratings — published 2000 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L. Hopp, Camille Kingsolver 4.05 avg rating — 113,000 ratings — published 2007 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flight Behavior 3.82 avg rating — 101,790 ratings — published 2012 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Animal Dreams 4.08 avg rating — 77,547 ratings — published 1990 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unsheltered 3.67 avg rating — 80,064 ratings — published 2018 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lacuna 3.83 avg rating — 74,243 ratings — published 2009 — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pigs in Heaven (Greer Family, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 68,433 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Goodreads regulars will be aware that our 2024 Reading Challenge is coming to a glorious conclusion with the ringing in of the new year. This...

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November 2014 New School Classics Poll

1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages

19 votes, 14.1%

1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages

19 votes, 14.1%

1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 291 pages

14 votes, 10.4%

1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages

13 votes, 9.6%

1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages

10 votes, 7.4%

1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages

10 votes, 7.4%

1998, The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 546 pages

9 votes, 6.7%

1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, 198 pages

8 votes, 5.9%

1993, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages

7 votes, 5.2%

1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages

7 votes, 5.2%

1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages

5 votes, 3.7%

1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages

3 votes, 2.2%

1939, How Green Was My Valleyby Richard Llewellyn, 448 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, 128 pages

2 votes, 1.5%

1966, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 176 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

135 total votes

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