The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
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American fiction, poetry, and essay writing often intersect with environmental science and social critique, but few bodies of work integrate these disciplines as directly as the novels of Barbara Kingsolver. Known widely for The Poisonwood Bible, a sweeping narrative following a missionary family in the Congo, Kingsolver has produced a distinct catalog of prose examining rural life, human responsibility, and complex family structures. Her 2022 novel Demon Copperhead received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, establishing her major role in contemporary American literature.
Born Barbara Ellen Kingsolver on April 8, 1955, in Annapolis, Maryland, she grew up in rural east-central Kentucky. During her childhood, she lived briefly with her parents in the Congo, an early experience that informed her later creative writing. Kingsolver pursued formal scientific education, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona. Prior to publishing fiction professionally in 1985, she worked as a scientific writer and freelance journalist, establishing a research habit that continues to shape her novels.
Kingsolver published her debut novel, The Bean Trees, in 1988, followed by works of short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction including Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike. Over two decades spent in Tucson, Arizona, and later in southwestern Virginia, she expanded her output across multiple genres. In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal for service through the arts and founded the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She also collaborated with her family on Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, an influential non-fiction account detailing a year of eating locally.
Kingsolver's literary style pairs rigorous ecological observation with deep character studies. Grounded in her background as a biologist, her narratives frequently focus on environmental conservation, biodiversity, regional agriculture, and the delicate interdependence between human communities and local ecosystems. Her work systematically examines social justice, political displacement, post-colonial history, and the resilience of working-class families navigating systemic hardship.
3 books in catalog
American fiction, poetry, and essay writing often intersect with environmental science and social critique, but few bodies of work integrate these disciplines as directly as the novels of Barbara Kingsolver. Known widely for The Poisonwood Bible, a sweeping narrative following a missionary family in the Congo, Kingsolver has produced a distinct catalog of prose examining rural life, human responsibility, and complex family structures. Her 2022 novel Demon Copperhead received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, establishing her major role in contemporary American literature.
Born Barbara Ellen Kingsolver on April 8, 1955, in Annapolis, Maryland, she grew up in rural east-central Kentucky. During her childhood, she lived briefly with her parents in the Congo, an early experience that informed her later creative writing. Kingsolver pursued formal scientific education, earning undergraduate and graduate degrees in biology from DePauw University and the University of Arizona. Prior to publishing fiction professionally in 1985, she worked as a scientific writer and freelance journalist, establishing a research habit that continues to shape her novels.
Kingsolver published her debut novel, The Bean Trees, in 1988, followed by works of short fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction including Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike. Over two decades spent in Tucson, Arizona, and later in southwestern Virginia, she expanded her output across multiple genres. In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal for service through the arts and founded the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She also collaborated with her family on Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, an influential non-fiction account detailing a year of eating locally.
Kingsolver's literary style pairs rigorous ecological observation with deep character studies. Grounded in her background as a biologist, her narratives frequently focus on environmental conservation, biodiversity, regional agriculture, and the delicate interdependence between human communities and local ecosystems. Her work systematically examines social justice, political displacement, post-colonial history, and the resilience of working-class families navigating systemic hardship.
