Marilynne Robinson '66 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction Monday for "Gilead," her elegiac novel about a dying Congregationalist priest in Iowa as he relates his life in a letter to his young ...

This past August the New York Times ran an investigative report about Sioux Center, Iowa, a small town that serves as a refuge for members of the Dutch Reformed Church, a tiny subset of the American ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Besides working on her newsmaking interview with Meghan and Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey has been busy with the novels of Marilynne Robinson. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she has ...

Marilynne Robinson is a dissident, though she may not sound like one. The 74-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and acclaimed essayist has made a peaceable career of rejecting commonly held ...

Early in her brand-new nonfiction book Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson points out that when Adam and Eve fell, God did not curse them. Yes, God cursed the ground, but he did not curse his human ...

Breaking up is hard to do, and I am not at all prepared to discard my deep love and admiration for novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson. Among her novels, I treasure Lila in particular for its ...

Marilynne Robinson is rightly famed as one of our most original, risky and rewarding novelists, but she is lesser known for the volumes of essays she’s steadily produced since her 1980 debut, ...

Another day, another literary award claimed by Iowa City's Marilynne Robinson. Retiring from the Iowa Writers' Workshop hasn't seemed to slow the accolades being heaped upon the author of ...

FILE - In this Sept. 14, 2015, file photo, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Marilynne Robinson visits the State Library of Iowa in the Ola Babcock Miller Building in Des Moines, Iowa. Oprah Winfrey ...

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NEW YORK – Besides working on her newsmaking interview with Meghan and Prince Harry, Oprah Winfrey has been busy with the novels of Marilynne Robinson. Winfrey announced Tuesday that she has selected ...