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Barbara Kingsolver is a best-selling writer whose book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, about her year of trying to eat only foods grown locally, is widely praised for popularizing the locavore movement. Kingsolver was raised in rural Kentucky and graduated from DePauw University with a degree in biology. After travelling in Greece, France and England, she moved to Tucson, Arizona, where she lived for the next 25-plus years. In 2004, she and her family moved back to a farm in southwestern Virginia, near her childhood home across the border in Kentucky, where she began her year of eating locally.

Kingsolver's first novel, The Bean Trees, was published in 1988. Since then, she published 11 more books of non-fiction and novels, including The Poisonwood Bible, selected for Oprah Winfrey's book club in 1999. Kingsolver is known for her examination of political and social injustice and her emphasis on biology in her writing.

Notable Eco Activity

Barbara Kingsolver is most famous for her memoir, Animal Vegetable Miracle, about her year of eating locally, and her subsequent writing, speaking engagements, and activism to encourage buying from local farmers, saving seeds, and gardening. She lives on a small farm in rural Virginia, with a huge vegetable garden. She is also famous for her use, in the book, of some statistics that have come into question, such as the study suggesting that National Merit Scholars are more likely to have eaten dinner with their families -- that study does not exist.

• Barbara Kingsolver Details

  • Birth Date

    April 8, 1955

  • Born In

    United States

  • Home Page

    http://www.kingsolver.com/

  • Lives In

    United States

  • Organizations

    Unavailable

  • Occupation

    Writer