Barbara Kingsolver
Biography
Barbara Kingsolver grew up in rural Kentucky and earned degrees in biology before becoming a freelance writer and author. Her fifteen books include short stories, essay collections, poetry, and seven novels. Following her well-known work The Poisonwood Bible, she published two novels and three non-fiction books. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than two dozen languages and has been adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges.
