Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible, the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity, and the interaction between humans and their communities and environments.
8 April 1955
Born on the same birth date (8 April 1955): David Wu • Gerrie Coetzee • Ron Johnson
Born on the same birth day (8 April): Chris Orr (artist) • Darren Jessee • Fred Ebb • Igor Akinfeev • John Arbuthnott (microbiologist) • John Havlicek • John Madden (director)
Born in the same month (April 1955): Bill Osborne • Don Hasselbeck • Gregg Jarrett • Joolz Denby • Margaret Moran • Marion Caspers-Merk • Marit Breivik • Michael Stone (loyalist) • Parviz Parastui • Rob Epstein • Steve Camp • Todd Lickliter • Tony Miles