How Barbara Kingsolver shaped a Pulitzer-prize-winning novel out of Kentucky roots


Barbara Kingsolver, author of "Demon Copperhead."

A young Barbara Kingsolver would more likely be found with a book rather than watching the family’s staticky television, courtesy of encouragement from her academic parents.

Kingsolver might also have been marching in the band at a school football game, taking in the view on a camping trip or traveling to faraway places while her father donated his time as a physician, according to brother Rob Kingsolver.

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