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Marilynne Robinson

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  • Amanda Knox: By the Book

    Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” by Douglas Adams, was a humorous distraction from the tension. Other books, like Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping,” were helpful because they explored themes, like loneliness and alienation, that I was having to learn to   from The New York Times Read more »

  • “Prodigals and Preachers”: me on Marilynne Robinson

    Keywords:Art Keywords:America Keywords:fatherhood Keywords:forgiveness Keywords:Marilynne Robinson Keywords:marriage Keywords:race Keywords:reading and repentance Keywords:weapons of the spirit Portals:Catholic   from Patheos Blogs Read more »

  • From Marilynne Robinson, “Gilead”

    German ge-. I regret that I must deprive myself of it. It takes half the point out of telling the story. Keywords:Art Keywords:Marilynne Robinson Keywords:objects in the world are words spoken by God Keywords:on beauty Keywords:words words words Portals:Catholi   from Patheos Blogs Read more »

  • Combining art and artifice

    Kushner's debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2008, alongside Marilynne Robinson (Home) and Peter Mathiessen, who won with Shadow Country. No small feat simply to have one's name printed next to those towering figures.   from Bedford Public Library Read more »

  • Marilynne Robinson: By the Book

    The author of “Gilead” and “When I Was a Child I Read Books” says that after “Housekeeping,” her greatest fear was writing “a fraudulent book simply to escape the embarrassments of having written only one novel.” When and where do you like to read? I like   from The New York Times Read more »

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About Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson (born 1943) is an American author. Her 1980 novel Housekeeping (see 1980 in literature) won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Her second novel, Gilead (see 2004 in literature), was acclaimed by critics and received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, and the 2005 Ambassador Book Award. Her third novel, Home, published in 2008, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.

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