Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955, and grew up in rural Kentucky. She earned degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona, and has worked as a freelance writer and author since 1985. At various times in her adult life she has lived in England, France, and the Canary Islands, and has worked in Europe, Africa, Asia, Mexico, and South America. She spent two decades in Tucson, Arizona, before moving to southwestern Virginia where she currently resides.
Her books, in order of publication, are: The Bean Trees (1988), Homeland (1989), Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike (1989), Animal Dreams (1990), Another America (1992), Pigs in Heaven (1993), High Tide in Tucson (1995), The Poisonwood Bible (1998), Prodigal Summer (2000), Small Wonder (2002), Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands, with photographer Annie Griffiths Belt (2002), Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (2007), and The Lacuna (2009). She served as editor for Best American Short Stories 2001. 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 throughout the nation. She has contributed to more than fifty literary anthologies, and her reviews and articles have appeared in most major U.S. newspapers and magazines.
Published: September 2020
A beautifully produced gift-edition of Barbara Kingsolver's luminous poetry - to appeal to her loyal fans and fiction readers more generally.
Published: December 2019
Faber 90th Stories brings together some of our finest short stories, past, present and future.
Published: August 2019
‘A novel of ideas … urgent and raw … her skill is creating characters who think for themselves, rather than simple idea-vectors: work that is human and humane.’ - Weekend Australian
Published: November 2018
Signed hardcover edition: The international bestselling author of several books including the Orange Prize-winning The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible - returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.
Published: October 2018
The international bestselling author of The Lacuna, Flight Behaviour and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards - including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize - returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.
Published: October 2018
The international bestselling author of The Lacuna, Flight Behaviour and The Poisonwood Bible and recipient of numerous literary awards - including the National Humanities Medal, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and the Orange Prize - returns with a timely novel that interweaves past and present to explore the human capacity for resilience and compassion in times of great upheaval.
Published: August 2017
An exquisite new edition of this international best-selling classic novel.
Published: March 2016
Kate Chopin's classic, an American Anna Karenina, joins Canongate's Canons series.
Published: July 2013
Part of a beautiful new series packaging programme for Barbara Kingsolver.
Published: June 2013
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
Published: May 2013
From the Orange Prize-winning author of The Lacuna comes a suspenseful and brilliant new novel about catastrophe and denial.
Published: September 2010
Dive into the most moving and beautiful novel of the year, from the bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible.