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.

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.

Barbara Kingsolver has put royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning ... While on a book tour in England, Kingsolver stayed in a bed-and-breakfast where Charles Dickens had worked on his novel ...

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.