Marilynne Robinson

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National Book Awards Finalist
National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
Pulitzer Prize Winner

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.

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Home by Marilynne Robinson--Excerpt II

"Listen to an audiobook excerpt from Marilynne Robinson's novel Home, read by Maggi-Meg Reed. Home is a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead. Learn more about the novel Home at http://us.macmillan.com/home/MarilynneRobinson Read about Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson at http://us.macmillan.com/author/marilynnerobinson"

Home by Marilynne Robinson--Excerpt I

"Listen to an audiobook excerpt of Marilynne Robinson's novel Home, read by Maggi-Meg Reed. Home is a brilliantly imagined retelling of the prodigal son parable, set at the same moment and in the same Iowa town as Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead. Learn more about the novel Home at http://us.macmillan.com/home/MarilynneRobinson Read about Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson at http://us.macmillan.com/author/marilynnerobinson"

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When I Was a Child I Read Books

Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Ever since the 1981 publication of her stunning debut, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving...

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Home

Marilynne Robinson
Picador

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009 A 2008 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE A New York Times Bestseller A Washington...

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Gilead

Marilynne Robinson
Picador

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...

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The Death of Adam

Marilynne Robinson
Picador

In this award-winning collection, the bestselling author of Gilead offers us other ways of thinking about history, religion, and society. Whether rescuing...

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Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson
Picador

A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow up haphazardly, first under the care of their competent...

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Mother Country

Marilynne Robinson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

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