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Barbara Kingsolver
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library
Barbara Kingsolver
Image courtesy of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Barbara Kingsolver

American, 1955
Barbara 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.