About the Author
Barbara Kingsolver has been a prolific author. She has written both non-fiction and fiction. Her non-fiction includes books, articles, essays and more. Her fiction includes novels, poetry and short stories. Her novels rank among some of the finest American fiction and include Prodigal Summer, The Poisonwood Bible, Pigs in Heaven, Animal Dreams and The Bean Trees. Her non-fiction books include Small Wonder, High Tide in Tuscson: Essays from Now or Never, and Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983.
Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 in Maryland and grew up in rural Kentucky. She attended DePauw University on a piano scholarship although she graduated with a degree in biology. It was after her move to Tuscon, Arizona in 1979 that she got a graduate degree in evolutionary biology and became a freelance journalist. Her early novels are reflective of this time in her life.
Her book Animal Vegetable, Miracle was written in 2007 and is consider "narrative non-fiction." It is a non-fiction book written with the story of this year in her family's life of eating off their own land, supplemented with local foods.
photo graciously borrowed from author's web site www.animalvegetablemiracle.com.
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