Alphabet Authors ~ K is for Kingsolver

I found this idea on Simon's blog @ Stuck in a Book. He picks an author for each letter of the alphabet, sharing which of their books he's read, which I ones he owns, how he came across them etc.

When I read my first book by Barbara Kingsolver, I knew I had found something great, an author I would love.

- "The Bean Trees" - 1988
- "Demon Copperhead" - 2022
- "Flight Behaviour" - 2012
- "The Lacuna" - 2009
- "Pigs in Heaven" - 1993
- "The Poisonwood Bible" - 1998 
- "Prodigal Summer" - 2001 
- "Unsheltered" - 2018

Ever since, I have read several of her books, as you can see, and loved every single one of them. The Poisonwood Bible, the first one, is still one of my favourites, though The Lacuna certainly is just as great.

Facts about Barbara Kingsolver:
Born    April 8, 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland, US
Married Joseph Hoffmann (1985–1992)

and Steven Lee Hopp (1994–present)

She has one daughter each by her two husbands, Camille born 1987, and Lily born 1996.
Apparently, she never wanted to be famous.

She received several prizes, The Women's Prize for Fiction for The Lacuna and Demon Copperhead and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Demon Copperhead plus many other prizes for literature and her activism for civil liberties and humanities.

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This is part of an ongoing series where I will write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here.