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Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction .
Gilead is a novel written by Marilynne Robinson published in 2004. It won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award . It is Robinson's second novel, following Housekeeping (1980).
- Marilynne Robinson
- 2004
Mar 4, 2024 · There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with ...
But for the Calvinist author Marilynne Robinson, the Big Bang is evidence of God, spun from His fingertips, as she argues in her spirited, erudite, if blinkered “ Reading Genesis ,” a study of...
Sep 25, 2020 · Robinson has closely followed the protests occasioned by the murder of George Floyd, and has been heartened by them, because, she says, they “reveal the actual authority in this country: the ...
Mar 6, 2024 · The descendants of Adam and Eve wander, murder, screw up, get drunk immediately after their most impressive actions, cheat one another out of blessings, engage in a spot of polyamory and then...
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Sep 29, 2014 · Marilynne Robinson’s new novel, “Lila” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), opens in about 1920, and it begins with a shocking action: a woman steals a child. Not that anybody seems to care much.
