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Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist, essayist and poet, born in 1955 and raised in rural Kentucky. She trained as a scientist, holding degrees in biology, ecology and evolutionary biology, and worked as a freelance writer before turning to fiction. Her novels include The Poisonwood Bible, about a missionary family in the Congo, The Lacuna, and Demon Copperhead, a retelling of Dickens's David Copperfield set in the Appalachian Virginia of the opioid crisis, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Priz...