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Barbara Kingsolver

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American author, poet and essayist

United StatesWritersBorn 1955 · age 71
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Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is an 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.

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Barbara Kingsolver
said · 2012
Own words

A flock is nothing but the put-together of all your past choices.

Hester to Dellarobia, her daughter-in-law, Flight Behavior, page 462 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).

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Barbara Kingsolver
said · 2012
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Even the most recalcitrant climate scientists agree now, the place is heating up. pretty much every one of the lot.

The entomologist Ovid Byron to the journalist Tina Ultner, Flight Behavior, page 505-506 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).

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Barbara Kingsolver
said · 2012
Own words

Cub retreated to the familiar grounds of remorse and insufficiency, the terms of his existence, ratified by marriage.

Flight Behavior, page 576 (ISBN 978-0-571-29081-9).

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Awards 4

2023Women's Prize for Fiction
2023Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2010Women's Prize for Fiction
2000National Humanities Medal

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Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is an 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.

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Born 1955 · age 71
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