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Marilynne Robinson

In conversation with Steven Winn

Monday, October 27, 2008 |  Herbst Theatre, 8pm

Pulitzer-prize winning author Marilynne Robinson took twenty-four years between her first two novels, Housekeeping, published in 1980 and Gilead, which debuted in 2004. Robinson's third novel, Home, has come to life in a much shorter period - it arrives in September 2008. Home continues the stories of several of the characters from her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Gilead, which dealt with matters of faith, mortality and small town Midwestern life. Marilynne Robinson has been active as a critic and essayist for the past three decades. Her essays, reviews and critical pieces have appeared in numerous publications, including Harper's, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post and the Paris Review. Robinson's thoughtful nonfiction works, Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1988) and The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998) have found resonance with an audience that appreciates her measured voice, lucid prose and meticulously researched subjects. The rhythm of her language has always been one of Robinson's hallmarks and Gilead introduced a new generation of readers to the genius of her cadence. She created her central character, an aging pastor with a young son, as much through the pacing of his thoughts as through external circumstance. Marilynne Robinson has taught in several writing workshops and programs and currently teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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