Barbara Kingsolver

<p>Barbara Kingsolver launched what would become an illustrious writing career with her classic first novel, <i>The Bean Trees</i>, about a rural Kentucky native trying to escape motherhood who inherits a Native American child on her way west. In 2000, Kingsolver was awarded the National Humanities Medal. In 2010, she won Britain’s Orange Prize for <i>The Lacuna</i>. In 2023, Kingsolver became the first author to win the Women's Prize for Fiction twice with her Pulitzer Prize winning novel <em>Demon Copperhead</em>. Other bestselling works include <i>The Poisonwood Bible</i> and the bestselling nonfiction book <i>Animal, Vegetable, Mineral</i>.</p>