Editing Barbara Kingsolver (section)

{{Short description|American author, poet and essayist (born 1955)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Barbara Kingsolver
| image            = Barbara Kingsolver (48684513758) (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Kingsolver at the 2019 [[National Book Festival]]
| birth_date       = {{birth date and age|1955|04|08|mf=yes}}
| birth_place      = [[Annapolis, Maryland]],<br />U.S.
| death_date       = 
| death_place      = 
| occupation       = {{flatlist|
* Novelist
* poet
* [[essayist]]}}
| period           = 1988–present
| genre            = Historical fiction
| subject          = Social justice, feminism, environmentalism
| notableworks     = {{Bulleted list|''[[The Poisonwood Bible]]''|''[[Animal, Vegetable, Miracle]]''|''[[Flight Behavior]]''|''[[Demon Copperhead]]''}}
| education        = {{plainlist|
*[[DePauw University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
*[[University of Arizona]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])}}
| spouse           = {{Unbulleted list|Joseph Hoffmann (1985–1992)|Steven Lee Hopp (1994–present)}}
| children         = 2
| relatives        = Wendell Roy Kingsolver (father), Virginia Lee (née Henry) Kingsolver (mother)
| website          = {{URL|www.kingsolver.com}}
| birth_name       = Barbara Ellen Kingsolver
}}
'''Barbara Ellen Kingsolver''' (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include ''[[The Poisonwood Bible]]'', the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and ''[[Animal, Vegetable, Miracle]]'', a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] for the novel ''[[Demon Copperhead]]''.<ref name="Pulitzer">{{cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year|title=2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners & Finalists|website=The Pulitzer Prizes (pulitzer.org)|access-date=4 July 2023}}</ref><ref name="Grdn2024"/> Her work often focuses on topics such as [[social justice]], [[biodiversity]], and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.

Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the [[Dayton Literary Peace Prize]]'s Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2011 and the [[National Humanities Medal]]. After winning for ''[[The Lacuna]]'' in 2010 and ''Demon Copperhead'' in 2023, Kingsolver became the first author to win the [[Women's Prize for Fiction]] twice.<ref>{{cite news|last=Shaffi|first=Sarah|date=April 26, 2023|title=Three debut novels compete among Women's prize for fiction shortlist|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/26/womens-prize-for-fiction-shortlist|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=May 24, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Shaffi-2022">{{Cite web |last=Shaffi |first=Sarah |date=2022-06-14 |title=Barbara Kingsolver wins the Women's prize for fiction for second time |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/14/barbara-kingsolver-wins-the-womens-prize-for-fiction-for-second-time |access-date=2022-06-14 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}</ref>  Since 1993, each one of her book titles have been on the [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' Best Seller list]].<ref name="Inside List">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/InsideList-t.html |title=Inside the List |work=[[The New York Times]]|date= November 13, 2009|access-date=May 3, 2010 | first=Jennifer | last=Schuessler}}</ref>

Kingsolver was raised in rural [[Kentucky]], lived briefly in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]] in her early childhood, and she currently lives in Virginia, in the [[Appalachia]] region.<ref name="Grdn2024">{{cite news |last1=Cooke |first1=Rachel |title=‘I’ve dealt with anti-hillbilly bigotry all my life’: Barbara Kingsolver on JD Vance, the real Appalachia and why Demon Copperhead was such a hit: Interview |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/06/barbara-kingsolver-demon-copperhead-jd-vance-holding-the-line |access-date=7 October 2024 |publisher=The Guardian |date=6 October 2024}}</ref><ref>https://www.shepherd.edu/ahwirweb/kingsolver/#:~:text=Today%2C%20Kingsolver%20lives%20with%20her,Read%20Author%20for%20the%20State.</ref> Kingsolver earned degrees in biology, [[ecology]], and [[evolutionary biology]] at [[DePauw University]] and the [[University of Arizona]], and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. In 2000, the politically [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] Kingsolver established the [[Bellwether Prize]] to support "literature of social change".