Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Home, winner of the Orange Prize, the L.A. Times Book Prize, and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson's nonfiction books include Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country, which was nominated for a National Book Award. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Iowa City.
Bio last modified April 30th, 2018.
Marilynne Robinson’s Metaphysical Inklings
Reporter Sarah Grochowski reports from the University of British Columbia, as Pulitzer Prize winning novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson delivered spoken essays as part of the 2017 Laing Lectures hosted by Regent College’s graduate school of theology.
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Fear
April 25, 2016In her most recent collection of essays, The Givenness of Things, Marilynne Robinson once again proves to be one of the most important voices for Modern North America. In "Fear," she provides a timely analysis of the pervasive fears smothering American culture. Rather than give in to the alarmism, she reminds us that the best antidote to fear is not more security and higher walls, it's more faith, hope, and love..
