Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, poet and essayist, born in Maryland in 1955 and raised in rural Kentucky, with a background in biology and ecology that runs through her work. Her novels include The Bean Trees (1988), Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven, The Poisonwood Bible (1998), set among a missionary family in the Congo, Prodigal Summer, The Lacuna and Flight Behavior. Demon Copperhead (2022), an Appalachian retelling of David Copperfield, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, while both it and The Lacuna won the Women's Prize for Fiction, making her the first two-time winner. Partita, published by Harper in October 2026, is her first novel since. She is also the author of the essay collection Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and of poetry, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
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Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, poet and essayist, born in Maryland in 1955 and raised in rural Kentucky, with a background in biology and ecology that runs through her work. Her novels include The Bean Trees (1988), Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven, The Poisonwood Bible (1998), set among a missionary family in the Congo, Prodigal Summer, The Lacuna and Flight Behavior. Demon Copperhead (2022), an Appalachian retelling of David Copperfield, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, while both it and The Lacuna won the Women's Prize for Fiction, making her the first two-time winner. Partita, published by Harper in October 2026, is her first novel since. She is also the author of the essay collection Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and of poetry, and was awarded the National Humanities Medal.
