"The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention"
-Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver was born in 1955 and grew up in Kentucky. She went into the study of Biology in her post-secondary education but started free lance writing in 1985. Kingsolver has lived in 5 countries along with 4 continents throughout her life before residing in southwestern Virginia. Her extensive travelling has allowed her to see the world through multiple points of view, which shows throughout her different pieces of work when she is writing about different cultures.
Kingsolver was named one of the most important writers of the 20th century by Writers Digest, and has also received many awards from from the American Booksellers Association and the American Library Association, along with other associations. The Poisonwood Bible was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the Orange Prize, and won the national book award of South Africa; it is also currently apart of Oprah's Book Club selection.
In "The Poisonwood Bible," Kingsolver chooses to narrate from five different points of view, none of these P.O.V's being from the man who is trying to colonize Kilanga. This is typical of a Post-Colonialist, because they choose to show the "victims" of colonization's view, instead of the colonizers. This is because the Post-Colonialist's are against colonizing, and are critiquing it.
