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Barbara Kingsolver

1955 - Today

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Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. 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. In 2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Kingsolver has received more than 1,715,649 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Barbara Kingsolver is the 6,421st most popular writer (down from 6,240th in 2019), the 11,919th most popular biography from United States (up from 13,972nd in 2019) and the 873rd most popular American Writer.

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  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.57

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Barbara Kingsolver ranks 6,421 out of 7,302. Before her are Frances Wright, Michal Šanda, Thomas Hood, Klas Östergren, Tana French, and Jenny Erpenbeck. After her are Rick Yancey, Anna Löwenstein, Jonathan Rosenbaum, James Lipton, Ruth Graham, and Samuel Daniel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1955, Barbara Kingsolver ranks 551. Before her are Marek Dziuba, Gerard Nijboer, Heribert Weber, Philippe Lafontaine, Steven M. Greer, and Klas Östergren. After her are Natalya Petrusyova, David Murray, Dorji Wangmo, Thelma Aldana, Hans-Jürgen Riediger, and Douglas Crockford.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Kingsolver ranks 11,919 out of 20,380. Before her are Sharon Lawrence (1961), John Taylor (1883), Matthew Barney (1967), Alex Kurtzman (1973), Tito Santana (1953), and Charles Sprague Sargent (1841). After her are Rick Yancey (1962), Lydia Lunch (1959), Elizabeth Marvel (1969), John Boozman (1950), Jonathan Rosenbaum (1943), and Teresa Edwards (1964).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Barbara Kingsolver ranks 873. Before her are Janet Evanovich (1943), Joe Hill (1972), James Branch Cabell (1879), Michael McClure (1932), Andrew Sarris (1928), and Tana French (1973). After her are Rick Yancey (1962), Jonathan Rosenbaum (1943), James Lipton (1926), Daniel Handler (1970), Helen Gurley Brown (1922), and J. P. Donleavy (1926).

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