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B.R. Kingsolver is a published American novelist, poet, and essayist who has won a Pulitzer Prize.

Born April 8, 1955, she is known for her fictional works as well as nonfiction, including Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, an account of her family and their attempts to try and eat locally. It would win the 2008 James Beard Foundation Award.

She received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2023 for her novel Demon Copperhead. She has also received additional awards for her writing, including the National Humanities Medal and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2011. She also won the Women’s Prize for Fiction twice, making her the first author to do so.

Kingsolver has had great success in the writing world as well, as each of her titles released since 1993 has been on the best seller list of the New York Times. She started her career off after winning a short story contest in a Phoenix newspaper.

The author grew up in the rural area of Kentucky, lived in the Congo for a brief time, and lives in Appalachia today. She attended DePauw University and the University of Arizona, where she graduated with degrees in biology as well as ecology and evolutionary biology. She originally had a scholarship to DePauw in music to study classical piano, but switched to biology after realizing the competitive nature of being a classical pianist.

The author married Joseph Hoffmann in 1985 and had their daughter Camille in 1987. They moved to the Canary Islands for a year and then came back to America in 1992, separating from her husband. Two years later, DePauw University awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Letters. She would then marry ornithologist Stephen Lee Hopp and have a daughter Lily born in 1996.

The author also was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Duke University in 2008, and she would go on to deliver the commencement address. She would also found a writers’ rock group called the Rock Bottom Remainders, which consisted of other members such as Stephen King, but is no longer active in the band (she had played the keyboard).

Prior to writing novels, she was a freelance writer. She also established the Bellwether Prize in 2000, supporting literature of social change.

She has made jewelry for a time, been in nursing school, and gotten a master’s in business. She has also worked as a teacher, newspaper editor, in construction, and with computers. She loves skiing, the outdoors, hiking, camping, traveling, and more.

Her first novel was published in 1988. It was titled The Bean Trees and was about a young woman who goes to Arizona from Kentucky, and adopts a child along the way. She wrote it herself while dealing with insomnia and pregnant with her first child.

One of her most famous works is The Poisonwood Bible. This 1998 story shows the journey of a wife and her daughters in Africa on a Christian mission. It shares similarities and inspirations to her own time in the Congo, but is distinctly not autobiographical. The novel won the National Book Prize of South Africa and made the short list for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She would also receive the National Humanities Medal in 2000.

Kingsolver has won countless more awards as well. She won the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction for her 2009 novel The Lacuna. She has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Virginia, and was named one of their Virginia Women in History in 2018.

She has also published essays and poems. Her essay collection High Tide in Tucscon came out in 1995 and Small Wonder was released in 2003. her poetry anthology came out in 1998, titled Another America. “Where to Begin” was an essay that was featured in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting. Her poetry also was featured with photographs in the work Last Stand: America’s Virgin Islands.

The author has also published many nonfiction works, including Holding the Line and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. Kingsolver has also had her science journalism published in various periodicals including Economic Botany.

She established her Bellwether Prize for Fiction in 2000, which supports authors who write works that support positive social change. The prize goes to a US citizen for previously unpublished fiction that tackles issues of social justice, is awarded in years of an even number, and gives the winner a cash prize of twenty-five thousand dollars funded by the author. It was announced that the PEN American Center would take over the prize’s administration in 2011, naming it to the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction.

She has often written characters who deal with social equality struggles, such as the working poor, undocumented immigrants, and single mothers. Other themes in her work including balancing being an individual with the desire to be part of a community as well as humans and the ecosystems they live in and how they interact and experience conflict.

B.R. Kingsolver has written four episodes of the 2009 television miniseries Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People. She also lent her voice to the 2016 feature film Yarn and has appeared on various podcasts and television shows.

Shadow Hunter is the first book in the Rosie O’Grady’s Paranormal Bar and Grill series of fictional novels by B.R. Kingsolver. If you have been looking for a new interesting story to read with elements of the paranormal, check this book out!

Main character Erin was surprised as anyone when puberty came along with a dash of magic. But far from being happy for her and guiding her through it, her parents decided that it would be a good idea instead to sell her to the Illuminati.

Now living with the Order of the Illuminati, they’ve done their best to train her in the art of being a thief, a spy, and an assassin. But then they send her to steal a magical artifact that has the ability to reveal the Truth in everything, she finds out that she’s not working for the Light but the Dark instead.

Now she’s about to pay the largest price ever for being deceived. She gets a job in a bar, but when the Order are still jockeying for world domination, can she ever get away alive? Read this fascinating story to find out!

Night Stalker is the second book in the Rosie O’Grady’s Paranormal Bar and Grill series of fictional novels by B.R. Kingsolver. If you loved the first book in the series, check this one out too!

Main character Erin has simple goals. She wants to make enough money to pay rent and get a boyfriend. But she has things getting in the way of that, like a stalker who happens to be a vampire who thinks that she’s the key part to him being able to take over the city.

She’s been able to avoid the Hunters of the Illuminati for now, but life remains challenging. Vampire lords want to use her– against each other– and the Columbia Club is offering bounties for werewolves and vampires alike.

Will the Rosie O’Grady’s Paranormal Bar and Grill crew have her back? Or is Erin on her own? Read this book to find out!