Animal, Vegetable, Miracle won numerous prizes including the James Beard award. The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize, and won the national book award of South Africa, before being named an Oprah Book Club selection. Critical acclaim for her books includes multiple awards from the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, among many others. In 2000 she received the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts. Kingsolver was named one the most important writers of the 20th Century by Writers Digest. Click here to view complete bibliography. She has contributed to more than fifty literary anthologies, and her reviews and articles have appeared in most major U.S. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and have been adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges throughout the nation. She served as editor for Best American Short Stories 2001. Her books, in order of publication, are: The Bean Trees (1988), Homeland (1989), Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike (1989), Animal Dreams (1990), Another America (1992), Pigs in Heaven (1993), High Tide in Tucson (1995), The Poisonwood Bible (1998), Prodigal Summer (2000), Small Wonder (2002), Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands, with photographer Annie Griffiths Belt (2002), Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007), The Lacuna (2009), Flight Behavior (2012), Unsheltered (2018), and How To Fly (In 10,000 Easy Lessons) (2020). She spent two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to southwestern Virginia where she currently resides. At various times in her adult life she has lived in England, France, and the Canary Islands, and has worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico, and South America. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955, and grew up in rural Kentucky.

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