Barbara Kingsolver EX-Husbands, Kids, Age, Parents, Net Worth

Barbara Kings solver is a Pulitzer prizewinning 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 non-fiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally born April 8th 1955 aged 69 years Annapolis Maryland United States spouse Steven hop M 1994 Joseph Hoffman M 1985 to 1992 movies yarn Awards women's prize for fiction pullit Sur prise for Fiction more children Camille Hoffman Lily hop parents Virginia Henry Wendell or King suver writing career King suver began her full-time writing career in the mid1 1980s as a science writer for the University of Arizona which eventually led to freelance feature writing including many cover stories for the local alternative weekly the Tucson Weekly she began her career in fiction writing after winning a short story contest in a local Phoenix newspaper King su's first novel The Bean Trees was published in 1988 and told the story of a young woman who leaves Kentucky for Arizona adopting an abandoned child along the way she wrote it at night while pregnant with her first child and struggling with insomnia her next work of fiction published in 1990 was Homeland and other stories a collection of short stories on a variety of topics exploring various themes from the evolution of cultural and ancestral lands to the struggles of marriage the novel animal dreams was also published in 1990 followed by pigs in heaven the sequel to The Bean Trees in 1993 every book that King suver has written since pigs in heaven has been on the New York Times bestseller list The Poisonwood Bible published in 1998 is one of her best known works it Chronicles the live of the wife and Daughters of a Baptist missionary on a Christian Mission in Africa although the setting of the novel is somewhat similar to King su's own childhood in the Democratic Republic of Congo then the Democratic Republic of zir the novel is not autobiographical the novel was chosen as an Oprah book club selection The Poisonwood Bible won the national book prize of South Africa and was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and pn/ Falkner award her next novel published in 2000 was prodigal summer said in southern Appalachia in 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities medal by the US President Bill Clinton King suver wrote a Los Angeles Times opinion piece following the US bombing of Afghanistan in the wake of the September 11th attacks which received WID spread criticism for conflating innocent Afghans with the Taliban regime she wrote I feel like I'm standing on a playground where the little boys are all screaming at each other he started it and throwing rocks that keep taking out another eye another tooth I keep looking around for somebody's mother to come on the scene saying boys boys who started it cannot possibly be the issue here people are getting hurt by some accounts she was denounced as a traitor but rebounded from these accusations and later wrote about them starting in April 2005 King suver and her family spent a year making every effort to eat food produced as locally as possible living on their Farm in rural Virginia they grew much of their own food and obtained most of the rest from their neighbors and other local farmers King suver her husband and her elder daughter chronicled their experiences of that year in the book animal vegetable Miracle a year of food life published in 2007 although exceptions were made for staple ingredients not available locally such as coffee and olive oil the family grew vegetables raised livestock Made cheese and preserved much of their Harvest animal vegetable miracle won the 2008 James Beard Foundation Award King suver returned to novel writing with the Luna published in 2009 King suver received her first women's prize for fiction for the novel in 2010 the Luna won the 2010 orange prize for fiction flight Behavior was published in 2012 it explores environmental themes and highlights the potential effects of global warming on the Monarch butterfly in 2011 King suver was the first ever recipient of the Dayton literary Peace Prize Richard C Holbrook distinguished Achievement Award the newly named award to celebrate the US Diplomat who played an instrumental role in negotiating the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995 in 2014 King suver was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Library of Virginia the award recognizes outstanding and long-lasting contributions to literature by a Virginian in 2018 the libr of Virginia named her one of the Virginia women in history unsheltered was published in 2018 and follows two families in binland New Jersey with one in the 1800s and the other in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy her latest book published in 2022 is demon Copperhead the novel was inspired by David Copperfield and is set in southern Appalachia in 20123 Demon Copperhead received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for fiction alongside nand Diaz's the first time the award was shared in its history King suver is also a published poet and essayist two of her essay collections high tide and Tucson 1995 and Small Wonder 2003 have been published and an anthology of her poetry was published in 1998 under the title another America her essay where to begin appears in the Anthology knitting Yarns writers on knitting 2013 published by WW Norton and Company her Pros poetry also accompanied photographs by Annie Griffith belal in a 2002 work titled Last Stand America's virgin lands her major non-fiction works include her 1990 publication holding the line women in the great Arizona mind strike of 1983 and 2007's animal vegetable Miracle a description of eating locally she has also been published as a science journalist in periodicals such as economic botany on topics such as desert plants and bioresources