Barbara Kingsolver
As a child in Kentucky, Barbara Kingsolver used to tell bedtime stories to her mother. Though she lost her accent while living in Indiana, Greece, France and Arizona, she retained that love of storytelling, which has carried her through careers as a science writer, feature journalist and one of America’s most admired contemporary novelists. Her first novel, The Bean Trees, established Kingsolver as an important literary voice and one who knew how to entertain readers. Since then she’s written acclaimed and beloved novels, like The Poisonwood Bible (1998), an Oprah’s Book Club selection and Pulitzer Prize finalist. She’s also proven her mastery of the short story (Homeland and Other Stories), poetry (Another America), and essays (High Tide in Tucson). Her nonfiction book about moving her family to a farm in Virginia, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (2007), was a best seller. The Lacuna (HarperCollins), Kingsolver’s first novel in nine years, is a story of one man caught up in the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s.
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