Analysis Of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible

Low pitched, with a calm and crisp voice that exhibits elements of her southern Kentucky heritage, Barbara Kingsolver captivates everyone around her with her kindness and tranquility. Ironically, Barbara exudes powerful opinions and she is fearless and confident.
Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8th, 1955 and was partially raised in rural Kentucky for a younger part of her life. When Kingsolver was about 7 years old, her and her father went to live in Africa for a brief part of her early childhood because he was a physician in public health. With having a very diverse childhood this inspired Kingsolver to become a great storyteller. “A public person who values and strives to keep private her personal life, she avoids writing biographical fiction and yet she gives events and observations from her life to her characters, some of whom speak with voices rather similar to her own” (DeMarr and Kingsolver 1). …show more content…
With her writing style it made her books interesting and captivated the reader's attention to where you didn't want to put the book down. This is how I felt when reading “The Poisonwood Bible”, because of her creative writing style it made the book very interesting. “A writer with a gift for telling engrossing stories and for creating interesting and lively characters, Kingsolver almost always begins working on each new piece of fiction with neither action nor character but rather with theme, with a question she wishes to examine. Unlike most serious writers, she considers herself a political writer, accepting that term, often considered a negative evaluation, with pleasure” (DeMarr and Kingsolver

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Analysis Of Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible

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