Author

Books by Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist, and poet whose work frequently examines political and social issues through intimate human stories. She is the author of The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer, Flight Behavior, and Unsheltered, among others. She has won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the Orange Prize for Fiction, and the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Demon Copperhead. She grew up in rural Kentucky and lives on a farm in southwest Virginia, the same region depicted in this novel. She is one of the most consistent literary voices in American fiction working at the intersection of ecology, class, and politics.