Barbara Ellen Kingsolver, a renowned American novelist, essayist, and poet, has recently sparked rumors about having scurvy, raising concerns about her health.
Meanwhile, many appear to be wondering if Barbara is suffering from a severe vitamin c deficiency resulting in anemia, exhaustion, spontaneous bleeding, and limb pain, as it is very common for older people over age 60 to suffer from Scurvy.
However, Barbara Kingsolver is not suffering from scurvy and has not revealed any other health issues or chronic illnesses.
The 69 year-old novelist, famous for her fictional and nonfiction books, follows a healthy lifestyle. She is often seen discussing the importance of eating organic food.
Barbara Kingsolver and her family live a healthy life eating locally-produced food!
Barbara Kingsolver and her family, including her second husband, ornithologist Steven Lee Hopp, and her daughters Camille and Lily, moved to a farm in Washington County, Virginia, away from a crowded city in 2004.
Likewise, since 2005, Kingsolver and her family have been actively supporting locally produced foods and making efforts to eat organic food as locally as possible.
Living on a farm in rural Virginia, they mostly grow their own food and purchase the rest from neighbors and other local farmers. They further aim to live a healthy life and boycott chemically produced foods.
Similarly, Barbara Kingsolver, her husband Steven, and her elder daughter Camille shared their experiences after avoiding commercial food in the 2007 book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
The nonfiction book shares her family’s attempt to eat only locally grown food with the concept of improving their diet by growing or obtaining food locally for an entire year.
Barbara and her family produced varieties of tomatoes, did rooster farming, and made cheese; the book also talks about the ecological costs of growing food in factory farms, transporting it thousands of miles, and adding chemical preservatives that harm the body.
However, exceptions were made for locally unavailable ingredients like coffee, olive oil, etc.
Additional Information
- Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland, to father Wendell Roy Kingsolver and mother Virginia Lee Henry. She grew up in Carlisle, Kentucky.
- She received an honorary Doctorate of Humane letter from Duke University, where she delivered a commencement address, “How to Be Hopeful.” Barbara has also won several renowned awards, including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her book Demon Copperhead.
- Her popular books include The Bean Trees, Pigs in Heaven, and The Poisonwood Bible. She is also famous for her poem, Another America and How to Fly.
