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Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

writer, 2005 Pulitzer Prize

After graduating from Brown University in 1966, Marilynne Robinson enrolled in the graduate program in English at the University of Washington. While writing her dissertation, Robinson began work on her first novel, Housekeeping (1981). Housekeeping received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. [more]

Gilead: Searching for Connection

Marilynne Robinson

November 4, 2005

Marilynne Robinson receives the 2005 Melcher Book Award from the Unitarian Universalist Association for her Pulitzer Prize winning novel Gilead. Gilead documents the travels of the human spirit in its search for connection to other human beings and to a spiritual power.

Gilead: A Novel

Author: Marilynne Robinson

Publisher: Picador (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 247 pages

Home: A Novel

Author: Marilynne Robinson

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2008)

Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages

Housekeeping: A Novel

Author: Marilynne Robinson

Publisher: Picador (2004)

Binding: Paperback, 219 pages

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