Definition & Meaning | English word KINGSOLVER

Definitions of KINGSOLVER

1. A surname.

Examples of Using KINGSOLVER in a Sentence

• After winning for The Lacuna in 2010 and Demon Copperhead in 2023, Kingsolver became the first author to win the Women's Prize for Fiction twice.
• The Poisonwood Bible is a 1998 bestselling novel by Barbara Kingsolver which mentions some of the famous "misprint Bibles" such as the Camel Bible, the Murderer's Bible, and the Bug Bible.
• Peck's reviews, in turn, were met with criticism, with the editors of Brooklyn-based n+1 magazine, though stating, in 2004, that

  when The New Republic took a writer down—as it notoriously did with Toni Morrison, Judith Butler, Frank Bidart, Don DeLillo, Elaine Scarry, Colson Whitehead, Kurt Andersen, Sharon Olds, Thomas Pynchon, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen, Barbara Kingsolver.

• Mademoiselle, primarily a fashion magazine, was also known for publishing short stories by popular authors including Truman Capote, Joyce Carol Oates, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Jane Smiley, Mary Gordon, Paul Theroux, Sue Miller, Barbara Kingsolver, Perri Klass, Michael Chabon, Mona Simpson, Alice Munro, Harold Brodkey, Pam Houston, Jean Stafford, and Susan Minot.
• In 2014, Blackstock cited Barbara Kingsolver, John Grisham, Dean Koontz, Jodi Piccoult, Harlen Coben, Pat Conroy, and Christian authors as influences on her work.
• Novelist Barbara Kingsolver and her husband, Steven Hopp, own the locally sourced farm-to-table restaurant Harvest Table in downtown Meadowview, the founding of which was inspired by their book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.
• In 2017, Stone Barns published Letters to a Young Farmer, a compilation of essays and letters about the highs and lows of farming life, including Barbara Kingsolver, Bill McKibben, Michael Pollan, Temple Grandin, Wendell Berry, Rick Bayless, and Marion Nestle.
• Prominent advocates for the farm-to-table movement, either as chefs, writers, farmers, or environmentalists include Wendell Berry, Wes Jackson, Michael Pollan, Thomas Keller, John Jeavons, Alice Waters, Dan Barber, Joel Salatin, Barbara Kingsolver, Tony Maws, Kevin Gillespie, Edna Lewis, Ken Myszka, Erik Manning and others.
• California Cooper, Ellen Douglas (Josephine Ayres Haxton), Louise Erdrich, Mary Gaitskill, Kaye Gibbons, Gail Godwin, Mary Gordon, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey, Shelby Hearon, Amy Hempel, Linda Hogan, Mary Hood, Josephine Humphreys, Gish Jen, Diane Johnson, Gayl Jones, Jamaica Kincaid, Nanci Kincaid, Barbara Kingsolver, Maxine (Ting Ting) Hong Kingston, Harper Lee, Ursula K.
• 2015: Alison Pick, Marcello Di Cintio, Adam Gopnik, Barbara Kingsolver, Ruth Reichl, Taiye Selasi, Sjón, Linn Ullmann, John Vaillant.
• Past winners of this award include Earl Hamner, Lee Smith, Tom Robbins, Charles Wright, Barbara Kingsolver, Rita Dove, John Grisham, Tom Wolfe, and David Baldacci.
• " Benjamin Evans' review in The Guardian notes, "Unlike the incompetent architect of the house in her latest book, Unsheltered, American novelist Barbara Kingsolver has proved herself a supreme craftsperson over the past three decades.

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