American writer Barbara Kingsolver grew up in rural Kentucky and now lives on a farm in southern Appalachia. She has written several novels, the most famous of them The Poisonwood Bible (1998), the story of an evangelical Baptist who takes his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959. The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize, and was subsequently named an Oprah Book Club selection. Her books have been translated into more than two dozen languages, and have been adopted into the core literature curriculum in high schools and colleges. She has contributed to more than 50 literary anthologies, and her reviews and articles have appeared in most major US newspapers and magazines. Kingsolver's new novel is Unsheltered, which The Guardian described as a "lament for the American dream".
26 Jan 2019
