Barbara Kingsolver to Receive NBF Lifetime Achievement Award

Author Barbara Kingsolver is this year's recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

The National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards, has announced that it will award Barbara Kingsolver with the 2024 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (DCAL), which will be presented at the 75th National Book Awards Ceremony & Benefit Dinner on Wednesday, November 20, 2024.

Kingsolver’s oeuvre includes works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, investigative journalism, children's books, and science writing. She is the author of nine novels, and her most recent novel, Demon Copperhead, won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was named an Oprah Book Club selection. She has been honored by the American Booksellers Association, the American Library Association, the James Beard Foundation, and the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, and was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2021.

Kingsolver will be presented with the 2024 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters by Sam Stoloff, president and principal of the Frances Goldin Literary Agency, at the 75th National Book Awards ceremony on November 20.