Barbara Kingsolver has been captivating audiences since her debut novel, The Poisonwood Bible, was published in 1998. The novel, set in the Belgian Congo, follows a missionary family and their struggles to adjust to their new environment. Kingsolver, an Aries born and raised in Maryland, also wrote the New York Times bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, which chronicles her family’s experiment of eating only locally-grown food. Kingsolver is one of the most acclaimed American novelists and non-fiction writers of our time.