Author

Barbara Kingsolver

Pulitzer Prize winner and the only author to win the Women's Prize for Fiction twice

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Barbara Kingsolver's books of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction are widely translated and have won numerous literary awards, including the Women's Prize for Fiction, awarded to The Lacuna; Flight Behaviour was also shortlisted. She is the founder of the PEN/Bellwether Prize, and in 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, her country's highest honour for service through the arts. Prior to her writing career, she studied and worked as a biologist. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Born1955 · Annapolis, Maryland, USA

Notable works The Poisonwood BibleDemon CopperheadFlight Behavior

HonoursPulitzer Prize for Fiction (2023) · Women's Prize for Fiction (2010, 2023) · National Humanities Medal (2000)

The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.— Animal Dreams