Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver is an American author as well as being a poet and an essayist. She earned degrees in Biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona. Topics covered in her novels include social justice, biodiversity, feminism and how humans interact with their environments. Ever since 1993, all of Kingsolver’s books have made the New York Times Bestseller List. She has won the Orange Prize for Fiction and the National Humanities Medal as well as having being nominated for PEN/Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
