Marilynne Robinson (born November 26, 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, and won the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction. Also in 2009, she held a Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale University, giving a series of talks entitled Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self.
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- News Source: Christian Science Monitor | 15 days agoDeeply devout, they were also some of the most tolerant among Puritan groups who headed to the new world. The first Pilgrims of the first American Thanksgiving in 1621 were unusually devout – even by Puritan standards. They crossed the ocean on a
- News Source: The Guardian | 28 days agoI've waited nine years for a new Barbara Kingsolver novel, and the setting for her latest couldn't have appealed to me more. The Lacuna shuttles between the 1930s Mexico of artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and the United States just as
- News Source: The Independent | about 1 month agoThe publishing world has been plunged into a new row over sexism after the authoritative Publishers Weekly omitted to include a single female author in its list of the year's top 10 titles. Leading British women writers rounded on the respected
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- Blog Source: jennifernew.wordpress.com | 27 days agoI saw the novelist Marilynne Robinson speak a few winters ago. She lives in my town, so I see her at the farmer's market in the summer and sometimes at her musician son's performances in the winter. But this was a magical talk. ...
- Blog Source: witandwisdomfortheaged.blogspot.com | 27 days agoMy Reading Stack. 25 Days, 26 Ways by Ace Collins Preparing for Jesus by Walter Wangerin, Jr. It All Goes Back in the Box by John Ortberg Faith & Doubt by John Ortberg Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Reclaiming Christianity by A.W. Tozer ...
- Blog Source: 2ndwednesdaybookclub.nashvillepubliclibrary.org | 27 days agoOur next book is Home by Marilynne Robinson. Home is a deeply affecting novel that transpires in the household of Reverend Robert Boughton. Glory Boughton, aged thirty-eight, has returned to Gilead to care for her dying father. ...
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