‘Demon Copperhead’ author Barbara Kingsolver to receive National Book Award for lifetime achievement
NEW YORK — NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Kingsolver, this year’s recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn’t imagine receiving such honors. “I just felt this continuous skepticism, not from readers but from critics and the gatekeepers. It was on two counts,” Kingsolver, 69, said during … Read more
