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Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver aN APPALACHIAN HERITAGE INTERVIEW n a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can," Barbara Kingsolver wrote in her debut novel The Bean Trees, first published in 1988. Back then she could not have known that her entire ethos as one of our finest creative writers, public intellectuals, and humanitarians would be summed up in this statement. But consciously or not, that's what Kingsolver has tried to do time and time again in her award-winning works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry; in her advocacy on behalf of the environment, local foods, and social justice; and in her establishment of the Bellwether Prize for writers of "unusually powerful fiction." A daughter of Appalachia who has lived and worked all over the world, Kingsolver has produced novels--among them The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna, and Flight Behavior--short story collections, essays, and poems that have been translated into more than two dozen languages. She has received Britain's Orange Prize for Fiction, the James Beard Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In a recent conversation with acclaimed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Barbara Kingsolver

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Appalachian Review , Volume 42 (4) – Nov 12, 2014
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aN APPALACHIAN HERITAGE INTERVIEW n a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can," Barbara Kingsolver wrote in her debut novel The Bean Trees, first published in 1988. Back then she could not have known that her entire ethos as one of our finest creative writers, public intellectuals, and humanitarians would be summed up in this statement. But consciously or not, that's what Kingsolver has tried to do time and time again in her award-winning works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry; in her advocacy on behalf of the environment, local foods, and social justice; and in her establishment of the Bellwether Prize for writers of "unusually powerful fiction." A daughter of Appalachia who has lived and worked all over the world, Kingsolver has produced novels--among them The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna, and Flight Behavior--short story collections, essays, and poems that have been translated into more than two dozen languages. She has received Britain's Orange Prize for Fiction, the James Beard Award, the National Humanities Medal, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In a recent conversation with acclaimed

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Published: Nov 12, 2014

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