The Bean Trees

Barbara Kingsolver  is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels  Unsheltered,   The Bean Trees, and  The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and  Coyote’ s Wild Home, a children’ s book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’ s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including  the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel,   Demon Copperhead,   the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and its Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.