Author

Books by Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist, best known for the Gilead series — Gilead (2004), Home (2008), Lila (2014), and Jack (2020). Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Robinson taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop for many years and is widely regarded as one of the major American prose stylists of her generation. Her essay collections, including The Death of Adam and Absence of Mind, engage with religion, science, and the fate of American civic culture.