10/16/2026
Featured in the latest Virginia News Reader
‘Every book I write will be about Appalachia’: Why Barbara Kingsolver feels called to tell stories about the region - By Siena Duncan for Cardinal News
Barbara Kingsolver wore a gray and blue patterned sweater she made herself, with wool sheared from sheep she and her husband raise.
On a cool late September afternoon, she sat on the front porch of her Meadowview farm, a place in Washington County she has called home for decades. It’s tucked between rolling wooded hills, far down a gravel path flanked by sheep paddocks and a barn where guinea fowl perch. Farther up the slopes are gardens, where the couple regularly harvests seasonal vegetables and herbs.
As she rocked back and forth in her chair, she said her calling is to write stories about Appalachia.
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