Professor
Marilynne S. Robinson
University of Iowa
Writer (novelist); Educator
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Literature
Elected
2010
Novelist and Writer; Professor, Writers' Workshop. Author of the novels Housekeeping (1980), recipient of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel; Gilead (2004), recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; and Home (2008), nominated for the National Book Award and winner of the Orange Prize. Nonfiction works include Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989) and The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998), and Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (Terry Lectures; 2010). Writes for Harper's, The Paris Review, and The New York Times Book Review.
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