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Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing." She is the author of Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson's nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.

Marilynne Robinson Books

Hourglass book cover

Hourglass

Marilynne Robinson
Reading Genesis book cover

Reading Genesis

Marilynne Robinson
Breaking Ground book cover

Breaking Ground

Mark Noll
The Gilead Novels (Oprah's Book Club) book cover

The Gilead Novels (Oprah's Book Club)

Marilynne Robinson
Jack (Oprah's Book Club) book cover

Jack (Oprah's Book Club)

Marilynne Robinson
Tinkers book cover

Tinkers

Paul Harding
What Are We Doing Here? book cover

What Are We Doing Here?

Marilynne Robinson
The Givenness of Things book cover

The Givenness of Things

Marilynne Robinson
The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We Write book cover

The World Split Open: Great Authors on How and Why We Write

Margaret Atwood
Lila (Oprah's Book Club) book cover

Lila (Oprah's Book Club)

Marilynne Robinson
The Brown Reader book cover

The Brown Reader

Judy Sternlight
The Death of Adam book cover

The Death of Adam

Marilynne Robinson
Esther Stories book cover

Esther Stories

Peter Orner
When I Was a Child I Read Books book cover

When I Was a Child I Read Books

Marilynne Robinson
Mother Country book cover

Mother Country

Marilynne Robinson
Home (Oprah's Book Club) book cover

Home (Oprah's Book Club)

Marilynne Robinson
Gilead (Oprah's Book Club) book cover

Gilead (Oprah's Book Club)

Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping book cover

Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson
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