Marilynne Robinson (b. 1943) is the author of four novels. Housekeeping (1980) won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Gilead (2004) received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the
When he died in Geneva in 1564, he left both a city and a world transformed by the impact of his ideas and beliefs.Marilynne Robinson is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Gilead. Her previous novel, Housekeeping, was nominated for the Pulitzer and has made numerous lists of...
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Marilynne Robinson is an American author known for her graceful language and studied observations on humankind and religion. Her best-known works include her debut novel, Housekeeping (1980), and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead (2004).
In Gilead in particular, Robinson invites us to see the world through the thoughtful mind and gracious prose of the Congregationalist minister John Ames. Because Gilead is an epistolary novel, the entirety of the book is written from Ames’s perspective, and in fact, much of the beauty of ...