![]() ![]() In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Demon Copperhead. She has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2011, UK's Orange Prize for Fiction 2010, for The Lacuna, and the National Humanities Medal. ![]() Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C. Each of her books published since 1993 has been on the New York Times Best Seller list. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. She was raised in rural Kentucky and lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood. Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist, essayist and poet. ![]()
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