Barbara Kingsolver (Change.org

Barbara Kingsolver

Author

Causes: Sustainable Food, Environment, Global Warming, Human Rights, Women's Rights

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For bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver, writing is a form of political activism. She infuses her work with current social issues such as the environment, sustainability, human rights and social injustice. Kingsolver has said, "If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread."

Her most recent book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, is the highly praised first-person paean to eating locally. Her novels include The Bean Trees and The Poisonwood Bible. Translated into nineteen languages, her work has won a devoted worldwide readership and many awards, including the National Humanities Medal.

Kingsolver founded and fully funds the Bellweather Prize for literature for social change to "...support the imagination of humane possibilities."

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