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Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible , the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle , a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally. Kingsolver was raised in rural Kentucky , lived briefly in the Congo in her early childhood, and she currently lives in Appalachia.

In , the politically progressive Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize to support "literature of social change". After graduating from high school, Kingsolver attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana , on a music scholarship, studying classical piano. She changed her major to biology after realizing that "classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of [them] get to play ' Blue Moon ' in a hotel lobby".

Kingsolver was involved in activism on her campus, and took part in protests against the Vietnam War. In , she enrolled in graduate school at the University of Arizona , [ 7 ] where she earned a master's degree in ecology and evolutionary biology. In , Kingsolver married Joseph Hoffmann, and gave birth to their daughter Camille in In , Kingsolver moved with her family to a farm in Washington County, Virginia.

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In the late s, Kingsolver was a founding member of the Rock Bottom Remainders , a rock-and-roll band made up of published writers. Kingsolver played the keyboard, but is no longer an active member of the band. In a interview with The Guardian , Kingsolver said, "I never wanted to be famous, and still don't… the universe rewarded me with what I dreaded most".

She said she created her own website just to compete with a plethora of fake ones "as a defense to protect my family from misinformation". Kingsolver lives in the Appalachia area of the United States. She said in that rural America is generally regarded by artistic elites with "a profound antipathy".