Barbara Kingsolver Quote
I will never understand it, she said. We’re the top of our food chain, so you’d think we’d relate to those guys the best. Seems like we’d be trying to talk them into trade agreements. Eddie laughed at that. So you’re telling me that as a kid, you were rooting for the wolf to eat the Riding Hood babe? My last name was Wolfe. I took it all kind of personally.
Barbara Kingsolver
I will never understand it, she said. We’re the top of our food chain, so you’d think we’d relate to those guys the best. Seems like we’d be trying to talk them into trade agreements. Eddie laughed at that. So you’re telling me that as a kid, you were rooting for the wolf to eat the Riding Hood babe? My last name was Wolfe. I took it all kind of personally.
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About Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award 2011 and the National Humanities Medal. 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. Each of her books published since 1993 has been on the New York Times Best Seller list.
Kingsolver was raised in rural Kentucky, lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood, and currently lives in Appalachia. She earned degrees in biology, ecology, and evolutionary biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona and worked as a freelance writer before she began writing novels. In 2000, the politically progressive Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize to support "literature of social change".