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Barbara Kingsolver


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in Annapolis, Maryland, The United States
April 08, 1955

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Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.
Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2011 and the National Humanities Medal. After winning for The Lacuna in 2010 and Demon Copperh
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Fall 2024 Visiting Larmore Poet: Barbara Kingsolver

Pulitzer Prize and two-time Women’s Prize-winning writer and poet Barbara Kingsolver was the featured visiting poet for the 2024 Catherine Burns Larmore Visiting Poet Series at Emory & Henry University on October 16th, 2024.

Watch Barbara’s talk with Professor Matthew Kelley Here!

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The Poisonwood Bible

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Demon Copperhead

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Animal Dreams

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Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver  (?)
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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.”
Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

“Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.”
Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible

“There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.”
Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees

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