Kingsolver

[king-sol-ver]

noun

1. Barbara, born 1955, U.S. novelist, short-story writer, and essayist.

Example Sentences

I’m reading a book by Barbara Kingsolver right now called “Unsheltered.”

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For me, for both plot and artistic writing: Jodi Picoult, Barbara Kingsolver and Tana French.

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Starting in the late 1980s in western Virginia, Kingsolver’s reimagining of “David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens combines a rebuke of the modern foster care system with the devastating effects of the opioid epidemic.

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Kingsolver’s empathetic portrait reminds us of the strength and resilience, and often defiance, of these communities.

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Author Barbara Kingsolver won the award for distinguished contribution to American letters, which has previously been won by writers including Toni Morrison and Isabel Allende, while publisher W. Paul Coates — the father of author Ta-Nehisi Coates — won the 2024 Literarian Award, a lifetime achievement prize for outstanding service to the literary community.

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