Meeting Barbara Kingsolver in Appalachia, re-released

“I've been waiting a long time to write a novel about Appalachia. In a way, maybe my whole life…”

2023 Fiction winner Barbara Kingsolver joined us on stage in Dallas on October 24, 2026, for the launch event of the Pulitzer on the Road traveling exhibition at the Dallas Public Library, where she was in conversation with 2026 Music winner, Gabriela Lena Frank. 

In celebration, we are re-releasing an interview between Kingsolver and former Pulitzer Board member Emily Ramshaw of The 19th. The interview was recorded on Kingsolver’s farm in Appalachia in spring 2024, where she talked about growing up in Appalachia, her life as a writer and the unforgettable narrator she created in her novel, Demon Copperhead. 

A transcript to this episode can be found online here.

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