Editing Barbara Kingsolver (section)

==Biography==
Kingsolver was born in 1955 in [[Annapolis, Maryland]], the daughter of Wendell Roy Kingsolver and Virginia Lee (née Henry) Kingsolver, but grew up in [[Carlisle, Kentucky]].<ref name="Novel as Indictment"/><ref name="At Lunch">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/09/01/garden/at-lunch-with-barbara-kingsolver-termites-are-interesting-but-books-sell-better.html?pagewanted=2|title=At Lunch With Barbara Kingsolver|last=Lyall|first=Sarah|format=interview|work=The New York Times|date=September 1, 1993|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref> When Kingsolver was seven, her father, a physician, took the family to [[Kinshasa|Léopoldville]], [[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)|Congo]] (now [[Kinshasa]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]).<ref name="Novel as Indictment">{{Citation|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/11/magazine/the-novel-as-indictment.html?scp=4&sq=Poisonwood%20Bible&st=cse|title=The Novel as Indictment|last=Kerr|first=Sarah| work=The New York Times|date=October 11, 1988|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=Ellen|last=Kanner|title=Barbara Kingsolver turns to her past to understand the present|date=November 1998|url=http://www.bookpage.com/books-5367-The+Poisonwood+Bible|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120721120202/http://www.bookpage.com/books-5367-The+Poisonwood+Bible|url-status=dead|archive-date=2012-07-21|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref>

After graduating from high school, Kingsolver attended [[DePauw University]] in [[Greencastle, Indiana]], on a music scholarship, studying classical piano. She changed her major to biology after realizing that "classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of [them] get to play <nowiki>'</nowiki>[[Blue Moon (1934 song)|Blue Moon]]<nowiki>'</nowiki> in a hotel lobby".<ref name="At Lunch"/><ref name="Grdn2024"/>

Kingsolver was involved in activism on her campus, and took part in protests against the [[Vietnam War]].<ref name="Novel as Indictment" /> In 1977, Kingsolver graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Snodgrass|first1=Mary Ellen|title=Barbara Kingsolver: A Literary Companion|date=2004|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476611174|page=13|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dAsyBgAAQBAJ&q=Barbara+Kingsolver+phi+beta+kappa&pg=PA13|language=en}}</ref> with a Bachelor of Science, and moved to France for a year.  In 1980, she enrolled in graduate school at the [[University of Arizona]],<ref name="At Lunch" /> where she earned a master's degree in [[ecology]] and [[evolutionary biology]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/readers_service/bios/kingsolver.htm |title=Barbara Kingsolver profile |work=St Charles Public Library |date=February 2010 |access-date=May 18, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615125302/http://www.st-charles.lib.il.us/readers_service/bios/kingsolver.htm |archive-date=June 15, 2011 }}</ref><ref name="Listen Here">{{cite book|title=Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia|last=Ballard|first=Sandra L.|year= 2003 |publisher= The University Press of Kentucky |location=Kentucky |isbn= 978-0-8131-9066-2|pages=330–31|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i090MbNYlIYC&pg=PA330|access-date=May 25, 2010}}</ref>

In 1985, Kingsolver married Joseph Hoffmann, and gave birth to their daughter Camille in 1987.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.enotes.com/contemporary-literary-criticism/kingsolver-barbara|title=Barbara Kingsolver|work= eNotes|access-date=May 18, 2010}}</ref><ref name="official site">{{cite web|url=http://www.kingsolver.com/biography|title=Barbara Kingsolver Brief Biography|format=Biography|work=Barbara Kingsolver's official website|access-date=2010-05-12|archive-date=2010-07-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714171744/http://www.kingsolver.com/biography/|url-status=dead}}</ref>  During the first [[Gulf War|First Gulf War]], she moved with her daughter to [[Tenerife]] in the [[Canary Islands]] for a year, mostly due to her frustration over America's military involvement.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6606679/Barbara-Kingsolver-Interview.html|title=Barbara Kingsolver: Interview|last=Leonard|first=Tom|format=Interview|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=November 20, 2009|access-date=May 12, 2010|location=London, UK|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100618214901/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6606679/Barbara-Kingsolver-Interview.html|archive-date=June 18, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref> After returning to the United States in 1992, she separated from her husband.<ref name="official site" />

In 1994, Kingsolver was awarded an honorary [[Doctor of Letters|Doctorate of Letters]] from her alma mater, DePauw University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.depauw.edu/news/?id=25211|title=Barbara Kingsolver '77 is Finalist for Britain's Orange Prize|work=DePauw University News|date=April 20, 2010|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref> That same year, she married Steven Lee Hopp, an [[ornithologist]], and their daughter Lily was born in 1996. In 2004, Kingsolver moved with her family to a farm in [[Washington County, Virginia]].<ref name="Novel as Indictment" /> In 2008, she received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from [[Duke University]], where she delivered a commencement address entitled "How to Be Hopeful".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/05/kingsolver.html|title=How to be Hopeful|last=Kingsolver|first=Barbara|format=Speech|publisher=[[Duke University]]|date=May 11, 2008|access-date=May 3, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100511142111/http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2008/05/kingsolver.html|archive-date=May 11, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the late 1990s, Kingsolver was a founding member of the [[Rock Bottom Remainders]], a rock-and-roll band made up of published writers. Other band members included [[Amy Tan]], [[Matt Groening]], [[Dave Barry]], and [[Stephen King]], and they played for one week during the year. Kingsolver played the keyboard, but is no longer an active member of the band.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.rockbottomremainders.com/pages/history.html| title=History of the Rock Bottom Remainders|format=website|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref>

In a 2010 interview with ''[[The Guardian]]'', Kingsolver said, "I never wanted to be famous, and still don't… the universe rewarded me with what I dreaded most". She said she created her own website just to compete with a plethora of fake ones "as a defense to protect my family from misinformation".<ref>{{cite web |work=The Guardian|location=UK|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/12/life-in-writing-barbara-kingsolver|title=Guardian interview: A life in writing: Barbara Kingsolver|date=June 12, 2010}}</ref>

Kingsolver lives in the [[Appalachia]] area of the United States. She said in 2020 that rural America is generally regarded by artistic elites with "a profound antipathy".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Marriott|first=James|title=Barbara Kingsolver interview: The Poisonwood Bible author talks about how her mother's death allowed her to write about family|newspaper=[[The Times]] |language=en|url=https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/barbara-kingsolver-interview-the-poisonwood-bible-author-talks-about-how-her-mothers-death-allowed-her-to-write-about-family-8fhj38kz0|access-date=2020-09-14|issn=0140-0460}}</ref>