50 Authors From 50 States — Here's What to Read From Each of Them

Though Barbara Kingsolver was born in Annapolis, MD, she was raised on an alfalfa farm in Eastern Kentucky, except for a brief period when her father's public health job took the family to what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her childhood inspired The Poisonwood Bible, which is about a family from the United States moving to the Belgian Congo in the 1960s.