Editing Barbara Kingsolver (section)

==Writing career==
[[File:Barbara Kingsolver speaking at BookExpo 2018.jpg|thumb|left|alt=Kingsolver speaking at BookExpo 2018|Kingsolver speaking at [[BookExpo America]] in 2018]]<!-- On the left so Kingsolver is facing the text per [[MOS:PORTRAIT]] -->
Kingsolver began her full-time writing career in the mid-1980s as a science writer for the University of Arizona, which eventually led to freelance feature writing, including many cover stories for the local alternative weekly, the ''Tucson Weekly''.<ref name="At Lunch" /><ref name="Listen Here" /> She began her career in fiction writing after winning a short-story contest in a local Phoenix newspaper.<ref name="At Lunch" />

Kingsolver's first novel, ''[[The Bean Trees]]'', was published in 1988, and told the story of a young woman who leaves Kentucky for Arizona, adopting an abandoned child along the way; she wrote it at night while pregnant with her first child and struggling with insomnia.<ref name="Listen Here" /> Her next work of fiction, published in 1990, was ''Homeland and Other Stories'', a collection of short stories on a variety of topics exploring various themes from the evolution of cultural and ancestral lands to the struggles of marriage.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/18/specials/kingsolver-homeland.html?scp=19&sq=barbara%20kingsolver&st=cse|title=Distant as a Cherokee Childhood|last=Banks|first=Russell|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=1989-06-11|access-date=2010-05-18}}</ref>

The novel ''[[Animal Dreams]]'' was also published in 1990,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/18/specials/kingsolver-animal.html?scp=23&sq=barbara%20kingsolver&st=cse|title=In One Small Town, the Weight of the World|last=Smiley|first=Jane |work=The New York Times|date= 1990-09-02|access-date=2010-05-18}}</ref> followed by ''[[Pigs in Heaven]]'', the sequel to ''The Bean Trees'', in 1993.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/27/books/and-baby-makes-two.html?scp=45&sq=barbara%20kingsolver&st=cse|title=And Baby Makes Two|last=Karbo|first=Karen|format=Book review|work= The New York Times|date=1993-06-27|access-date=2010-05-18}}</ref> Every book that Kingsolver has written since ''Pigs in Heaven'' has been on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list.<ref name="Inside List" />

''[[The Poisonwood Bible]]'', published in 1998, is one of her best-known works; it chronicles the lives of the wife and daughters of a Baptist missionary on a Christian mission in Africa.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/18/reviews/981018.18klinket.html |title=Going Native |last= Klinkenborg |first= Verlyn|work= The New York Times |date=October 16, 1998|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref> Although the setting of the novel is somewhat similar to Kingsolver's own childhood in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Democratic Republic of Congo]] (then [[Zaire]]), the novel is not autobiographical.<ref name="Novel as Indictment" /> The novel was chosen as an [[Oprah's Book Club]] selection.<ref>{{cite web |title=Barbara Kingsolver author biography |url=http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Barbara-Kingsolver-author-biography |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100603022916/http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Barbara-Kingsolver-author-biography |archive-date=June 3, 2010 |access-date=May 3, 2010 |work=Oprah.com}}</ref> ''The Poisonwood Bible'' won the National Book Prize of South Africa and was shortlisted for both the [[Pulitzer Prize]] and [[PEN/Faulkner Award]].<ref name="awards">{{cite web |title=Awards & Honors &#124; Barbara Kingsolver |url=http://www.kingsolver.com/awards-and-honors |access-date=2010-05-12 |work=Official Site |format=Awards & Honors List}}</ref>

Her next novel, published in 2000, was ''[[Prodigal Summer]]'', set in southern Appalachia.<ref name="Men, Women and Coyotes">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/reviews/001105.05schuest.html?scp=1&sq=barbara%20kingsolver%20AND%20prodigal%20summer&st=cse|title=Men, Women and Coyotes|last=Schuessler|first=Jennifer|format= Book review|work=The New York Times|date=November 5, 2000|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref> In 2000, she was awarded the [[National Humanities Medal]] by the U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]].<ref name="About">{{cite web |last=Harper Collins |title=About the Author, Barbara Kingsolver |url=http://www.harpercollins.com/author/microsite/About.aspx?authorid=5311 |access-date=2010-05-02 |archive-date=2010-02-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100205002224/http://harpercollins.com/author/microsite/about.aspx?authorid=5311 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Kingsolver wrote a ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' opinion piece following the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan in the wake of the [[September 11 attacks]], which received widespread criticism for conflating innocent Afghans with the Taliban regime. She wrote, "I feel like I'm standing on a playground where the little boys are all screaming at each other, 'He started it!' and throwing rocks that keep taking out another eye, another tooth. I keep looking around for somebody's mother to come on the scene saying, 'Boys! Boys! Who started it cannot possibly be the issue here. People are getting hurt.{{'"}}<ref>{{Citation |last=Barbara |first=Kingsolver |title=No Glory in Unjust War on the Weak |date=October 14, 2001 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-oct-14-op-57057-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |page=2 |access-date=June 10, 2016}}.</ref> By some accounts, she was "denounced as a traitor," but rebounded from these accusations and later wrote about them.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 8, 2009 |title=How Barbara Kingsolver recovered from a 9/11 backlash |url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/arts-ents/book-features/how-barbara-kingsolver-recovered-from-a-9-11-backlash-1.931075 |access-date=June 19, 2016 |website=Herald Scotland}}</ref>

Starting in April 2005, Kingsolver and her family spent a year making every effort to eat food produced as locally as possible.<ref name="Good for You" /> Living on their farm in rural Virginia, they grew much of their own food and obtained most of the rest from their neighbors and other local farmers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=9891473|title=Back to Basics: Kingsolver Clan Lives off Land: NPR|last=Neary|first=Lynn|work=National Public Radio|date=April 29, 2007|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref> Kingsolver, her husband, and her elder daughter chronicled their experiences of that year in the book ''[[Animal, Vegetable, Miracle|Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life]]'', published in 2007. Although exceptions were made for staple ingredients not available locally, such as coffee and [[olive oil]], the family grew vegetables, raised livestock, made cheese, and preserved much of their harvest.<ref name="Good for You" /><ref>{{cite book|title=Animal, Vegetable, Miracle|url=https://archive.org/details/animalvegetablem00king|url-access=registration|last=Kingsolver|first=Barbara|author2=Hopp, Steven|author3=Kingsolver, Camille|year=2006|publisher=HarperCollins|isbn=9780060852559}}</ref> ''Animal, Vegetable, Miracle'' won the 2008 [[James Beard Foundation Award]].

Kingsolver returned to novel-writing with ''[[The Lacuna]]'', published in 2009. Kingsolver received her first [[Women's Prize for Fiction]] for the novel in 2010.<ref name="Shaffi-2022" /> ''The Lacuna'' won the 2010 [[Orange Prize for Fiction]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Brown |first=Mark |title=Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna beats Wolf Hall to Orange prize |work=The Guardian |location=London, UK |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/09/orange-prize-barbara-kingsolver |url-status=live |access-date=June 9, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612090903/http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/09/orange-prize-barbara-kingsolver |archive-date=12 June 2010}}</ref> ''[[Flight Behavior]]'' was published in 2012. It explores environmental themes and highlights the potential effects of global warming on the [[monarch butterfly]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/19/books/barbara-kingsolvers-flight-behavior.html|title=A Visitation of Butterflies to a Town and a Life|last=Lipman|first=Elinor|date=November 19, 2012|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 5, 2019|pages=6}}</ref>

In 2011, Kingsolver was the first ever recipient of the [[Dayton Literary Peace Prize]] Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. The newly named award to celebrate the U.S. diplomat who played an instrumental role in negotiating the [[Dayton Peace Accords]] in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the Awards – Dayton Literary Peace Prize |url=https://www.daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/about-the-awards/ |access-date=2022-03-29 |language=en}}</ref> In 2014, Kingsolver was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the [[Library of Virginia]].  The award recognizes outstanding and long-lasting contributions to literature by a Virginian.<ref name="VA Literary Awards">{{cite web|title=Annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards|url=http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/litawards/|publisher=Library of Virginia|access-date=March 10, 2014}}</ref> In 2018 the Library of Virginia named her one of the [[Virginia Women in History]].<ref name="Women in History">{{cite web|url=https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/vawomen/2018/honoree.htm?bio=Kingsolver|title=Virginia Women in History 2018 Barbara Kingsolver|website=www.lva.virginia.gov|date=30 June 2016 |access-date=15 March 2018}}</ref>

''[[Unsheltered]]'' was published in 2018 and follows two families in [[Vineland, New Jersey]] with one in the 1800s and the other in the aftermath of [[Hurricane Sandy]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Zongker |first=Brett |date=2019-05-09 |title=U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Join Leading Authors at 2019 National Book Festival {{!}} National Book Festival |url=https://blogs.loc.gov/national-book-festival/2019/05/u-s-supreme-court-justice-ruth-bader-ginsburg-to-join-leading-authors-at-2019-national-book-festival/ |access-date=2024-12-25 |website=The Library of Congress}}</ref> Her latest book, published in 2022, is ''[[Demon Copperhead]]''. The novel was inspired by ''[[David Copperfield]]'' and is set in southern Appalachia, dealing with the effects of the [[Opioid epidemic|opioid crisis]] on the region's families.<ref name="Grdn2024"/> In 2023, ''[[Demon Copperhead]]'' received the 2023 [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] alongside [[Hernan Diaz (writer)|Hernan Diaz]]'s ''Trust'', the first time the award was shared in its history.

Kingsolver is also a published poet and essayist. Two of her essay collections, ''[[High Tide in Tucson]]'' (1995) and ''[[Small Wonder (essays)|Small Wonder]]'' (2003), have been published, and an anthology of her poetry was published in 1998 under the title ''Another America''. Her essay "Where to Begin" appears in the anthology ''Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting ''(2013), published by [[W. W. Norton & Company]]. Her prose poetry also accompanied photographs by [[Annie Griffiths Belt]] in a 2002 work titled ''Last Stand: America's Virgin Lands''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021029_LastStand.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021101122255/http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1025_021029_LastStand.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 1, 2002 |title=New Photo Book an Homage to Last U.S. Wildlands |last= Parsell|first= T.L.|work= National Geographic News|date=October 29, 2002 |access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref>

Her major nonfiction works include her 1990 publication ''Holding the Line: Women in the [[Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983|Great Arizona Mine Strike]] of 1983''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/18/specials/kingsolver-holding.html?scp=61&sq=barbara%20kingsolver&st=cse|title=Both Sides Lost|last=Stegner|first=Page|work=The New York Times|date=January 7, 1990|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref><ref name="Grdn2024"/> and 2007's ''[[Animal, Vegetable, Miracle]]'', a description of [[local food|eating locally]].<ref name="Good for You">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/11/books/11book.html?scp=17&sq=barbara%20kingsolver&st=cse|title=Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life|last=Maslin|first=Janet|work=The New York Times|date=May 11, 2007|access-date=May 18, 2010}}</ref> She has also been published as a science journalist in periodicals such as ''[[Economic Botany]]'' on topics such as desert plants and bioresources.<ref name="At Lunch"/><ref name="bibliography">{{cite web|url=http://www.kingsolver.com/bibliography|title=Bibliography|format=Bibliography|work=Official Website|access-date=May 3, 2010}}</ref>