Image of author Barbara Kingsolver, seated indoors and wearing a black top
Barbara Kingsolver, photo credit, Evan Kafka

Barbara
Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible and Demon Copperhead, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and is the first author to win the Women’s Prize twice. Barbara lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia. Photo Credit: Evan Kafka

Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible and Demon Copperhead, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction and is the first author to win the Women’s Prize twice. Barbara lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia. Photo Credit: Evan Kafka

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