Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

Bio

Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for “her grace and intelligence in writing.” In 2013, she was awarded South Korea’s Park Kyong-ni Prize for her contribution to international literature. She is the author of National Book Critics Circle Award winning book LilaGilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She lives in Iowa City, where she taught at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop for 25 years.

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Jack

by Marilynne Robinson

Published by McClelland & Stewart

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