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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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Relief: more sayings
- “To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh…”Elisabeth Moss
- “It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to…”Ellie Goulding
- “But in that first flush of victory and happiness and relief, and God knows what other emotions were involved…”Harry Bernstein
Religion: more sayings
- “I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindne…”Elizabeth Kim
- “Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.”H. L. Mencken
- “Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these rel…”Jon Stewart
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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