Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet whose work often turns to social justice, biodiversity, and the ties between people and the places they live. She is best known for The Poisonwood Bible, a novel about a missionary family in the Congo, and for Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, her account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Demon Copperhead. She lives in Virginia.