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About Barbara Kingsolver
American novelist, essayist, and poet
Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet. She is known for fiction and nonfiction that examine how people live within their communities and environments, with attention to social justice and biodiversity. Her best-known books include The Poisonwood Bible, about a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family’s effort to eat locally. In 2023, she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Demon Copperhead.
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Books by Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
2003
The lacuna
2009
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
2007
The Bean Trees
1998
Prodigal Summer Display
2001