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Barbara Kingsolver

Born

in Annapolis, Maryland, The United States

April 08, 1955

Website

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: 4.18 · 2,610,939 ratings · 202,704 reviews · 74 distinct works • Similar authors

	Demon Copperhead 4.46 avg rating — 899,255 ratings — published 2022 — 2 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 4.12 avg rating — 812,270 ratings — published 1998 — 153 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) 4.02 avg rating — 181,072 ratings — published 1988	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 4.06 avg rating — 135,491 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 — 114,373 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 3.83 avg rating — 104,584 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 — 80,022 ratings — published 1990 — 5 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 — 84,886 ratings — published 2018 — 44 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 — 76,438 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) 4.03 avg rating — 70,596 ratings — published 1993 — 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

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January 2016 New School Group Read

1937, The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, 366 pages

22 votes, 15.5%

1966, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 445 pages

21 votes, 14.8%

1915, The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, 201 pages

13 votes, 9.2%

1920, This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 288 pages

12 votes, 8.5%

1953, Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, 181 pages

12 votes, 8.5%

1954, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 182 pages

12 votes, 8.5%

1985, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami, 400 pages

11 votes, 7.7%

1969, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 304 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1939, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 264 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1998, The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, 546 pages

7 votes, 4.9%

1999, Battle Royale by Koushun Takami, 617 pages

6 votes, 4.2%

1984, The Bone People by Keri Hulme, 450 pages

5 votes, 3.5%

1956, The Black Obelisk by Erich Maria Remarque, 448 pages

3 votes, 2.1%

1926, The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery, 218 pages

2 votes, 1.4%

1937, Christ in Concrete by Pietro Di Donato, 256 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

1957, The Assistant by Bernard Malamud, 246 pages

1 vote, 0.7%

142 total votes

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