Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955, in Annapolis, Maryland, to Virginia Henry and Wendell Kingsolver, a physician. Kingsolver's personal experiences and passions, as well as her love of the southwestern United States, deeply influence her writing. Although Kingsolver's characters tend to find themselves facing traumatic dilemmas, Kingsolver is able to interject humor, which lightens the tone and communicate the love, hope, and strength that is evident in the lives of people from all cultures and walks of life. Her protagonists tend to be resilient, sensitive females, who are successfully surviving the typical day-to-day struggles found in America. Thus, Kingsolver writes about current social issues such as the environment, human rights, and social injustice. Kingsolver cares deeply about the world in which she lives and the people in it, and her writing attempts to change the world - to make the world a better place in which to live. Barbara Kingsolver is not only a contemporary American author of best-selling novels, nonfiction, and poetry, but also a freelance journalist and political activist.
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