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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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- “We are bodies, sometimes with dreams and always with desires.”Barbara Kingsolver
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- “Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.”Barbara Kingsolver
Simplicity: more sayings
- “The real joy of writing lies in the opportunity of being able to sacrifice a whole chapter for a single sente…”Jean Baudrillard
- “I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life mo…”Elliott Erwitt
- “I can do the vocal acrobatics but I really try not to. I've always been drawn to singers who sing it like it…”KT Tunstall
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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