Barbara Kingsolver
Geboren: April 08, 1955 – Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet whose work explores social justice, ecology, rural life, and family. Her best-known books include The Poisonwood Bible, The Bean Trees, and Demon Copperhead, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, cementing her as a major contemporary literary voice.
Biografie & Werdegang des Autors
Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955, in Annapolis, Maryland, and grew up in rural Kentucky, with formative interruptions that widened her sense of place. In 1963 her family spent time in the Republic of Congo, where her physician father worked in a remote village, an experience that later sharpened her attention to cultural difference, colonial history, and the living world. At DePauw University she entered on a piano scholarship, then shifted to biology; after graduate study in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona, she carried both scientific training and literary ambition into adult life. ((https://barbarakingsolver.net/autobiography/))
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Butterflies ignite climate awakening in one woman's transformative Appalachian journey
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A family's year-long adventure in local eating, exploring sustainable food choices and reconnecting with nature's rhythms and flavors.
The Poisonwood Bible
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Flight behavior
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"Barbara Kingsolver is a quiet titan of American literature"
— The Guardian
"Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for vivid evocation of landscape and her characters’ state of mind"
— The New York Times Book Review
"Barbara Kingsolver is giving a new voice to our literature"
— Los Angeles Times Book Review
"An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers"
— Cosmopolitan
"Barbara Kingsolver is a gifted magician of words"
— TIME
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— Kirkus Reviews
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"Barbara Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent"
— Chicago Tribune
"In the age of Trump, Barbara Kingsolver is the novelist we need"
— Prospect
"Barbara Kingsolver achieves a fully realized and profoundly moral vision, one rooted in the land and our relationship to it"
— San Francisco Chronicle
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