Barbara Kingsolver: Quick Facts

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Born	April 8, 1955 (age 71) • Annapolis • Maryland
Awards And Honors	Pulitzer Prize (2023) • Women’s Prize for Fiction (2010)
Notable Works	“Animal Dreams” • “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” • “Another America (Otra America)” • “Demon Copperhead” • “Flight Behavior” • “High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never” • “Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983” • “How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)” • “Pigs in Heaven” • “Prodigal Summer” • “Small Wonder” • “The Bean Trees” • “The Lacuna” • “The Poisonwood Bible” • “Unsheltered”