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): Adrian Boult • Anthony Farrar-Hockley • David Rittenhouse • Hirsch Jacobs • John Hicks • Juan van der Hamen • Manuel Díaz (fencer) • Martin J. Schreiber • Roman Dragoun • Seth Tobias • Tim Thomerson • Trina Schart Hyman • Winifred Asprey
Born in the same month (April 1955): Anthony Horowitz • Bernard Longley • Bill Osborne • Charlotte de Turckheim • Christian Gourcuff • David Kitchin, Lord Kitchin • David Wu • Gregg Jarrett • Guy Nève • Humayun Akhtar Khan • John de Mol Jr. • Joice Mujuru • Kate Mulgrew • Margaret Moran • Marion Caspers-Merk • Michael Stone (loyalist) • Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda • Nicolas Hulot • Pradeep Sarkar • Tim Cochran • Todd Lickliter • Zev Siegl • Zlatko Topčić