Barbara Kingsolver is an American novelist. She is the only author to win the Women’s Prize for Fiction twice, both for The Lacuna in 2010 and Demon Copperhead in 2023. She has also won the PEN/Faulkner prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction.
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver
The Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver
On Her Childhood in the DRC
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Barbara Kingsolver
On Honing the Price Girls’ Voices
Map of the Congo, 1950s
Courtesy of the author
King Leopold II of Belgium
Colonial History
Patrice Lumumba
First Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Barbara Kingsolver
On the Research Process
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Rachel Shenton
Reads The Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver
On Writing About Troubled Times
Bible Errata
Inspiration for The Poisonwood Bible
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Barbara Kingsolver
On the Courage to Tell This Story
Barbara Kingsolver
From The Poisonwood Bible
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The Poisonwood Bible
The story of a family’s tragic undoing and efforts to rebuild what’s been lost, The Poisonwood Bible is an epic novel full of suspense. Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, decides to take his wife, four daughters and mission to Belgian Congo. Equipped with everything they believe they will need to settle in the new country, they will soon discover that all of it is forever transformed on African soil.
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