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	Powells.com Interviews - Marilynne Robinson
		Marilynne Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, came out in 1980 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
		Robinson: When I initially thought of it, the first image that I had was of an old man at a desk writing to a child who's playing on the floor beside him, but writing as if to him as an adult.
		Robinson: There is that certain line from William Carlos Williams that I love: "No ideas but in things." I think that when ideas lose their roots in experience, they begin to falsify themselves.
	www.powells.com /authors/robinson.html (2399 words)

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		Robinson not only had strong connections with her family but was raised with a deep love of religion (Maguire 258).
		Robinson never really expected the book to be published; all she wanted was to write a book that she would want to read (Schaub 232).
		Robinson's high school Latin teacher introduced a whole new world of literature to her, a world that was of olden times, full of authors like Horace, Virgil, and Cicero.
	www.ncteamericancollection.org /litmap/robinson_marilynne_id.htm (1273 words)

	Gilead by Marilynne Robinson: Reviews
		Robinson has composed, with its cascading perfections of symbols, a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer.
		Robinson's prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise; the revelations are subtle but never muted when they come, and the careful telling carries the breath of suspense.
		If Robinson’s purpose in Gilead is to represent the value of a religious apprehension of life which modernity, at its peril, has relegated to the parochial margin, she seems to undercut it at every turn.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/robinsonmarilynne/gilead (1423 words)

	The Revealer: From the Standpoint of Grace
		When Marilynne Robinson published her debut novel, Housekeeping, in 1981, admiring critics had already allotted her a tidy spot in the tacit consensus of American letters.
		Robinson, too, has a salvific vision of Gilead, but in this novel it is a small town in Iowa in 1956, where the book’s narrator, a 77-year-old Congregationalist preacher named Jonathan Ames, is compiling a gently instructional diary for his son, the six-year-old issue of Ames’s somewhat scandalous May-December marriage with a much younger parishioner.
		Robinson's remarkable accomplishment is in the depiction of a protagonist whose goodness--which is real--is both enabled and limited by the restrictions on experience he has accepted, even willed.
	www.therevealer.org /archives/timeless_001690.php (2978 words)

	UI Faculty Member Robinson Wins Pulitzer Prize For 'Gilead' - University News Service - The University of Iowa
		Marilynne Robinson, a faculty member in the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, was identified today as the winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in fiction.
		Robinson was honored for "Gilead," an epistolary novel about the experiences and thoughts of a small-town Iowa minister.
		In 1998, Robinson was selected by the American Academy of Arts and Letters to receive a Strauss Living, a five-year stipend totaling a quarter of a million dollars that was established to enable writers to focus entirely on their work without requiring other employment.
	www.news-releases.uiowa.edu /2005/april/040405pulitzer-robinson.html (723 words)

	The New York Times > Magazine > A Moralist of the Midwest
		In a sense, Robinson is a kind of contemporary George Eliot: socially engaged, preoccupied with the environment and the moral progress of man (especially as catalyzed through art) and preoccupied with the legacy of John Calvin (a misunderstood humanist, by Robinson's lights).
		Robinson, who has no television and doesn't drive, offered a scathing indictment of contemporary America's materialism and frivolity in her essay collection ''The Death of Adam''; all told, the book offered an almost anachronistically stern view of the moral failings of humankind.
		Robinson's nonfiction emerges from her curiosity about the world and from her impatience with the frivolous ignorance of those who should know better (academics, politicians and religious leaders).
	www.nytimes.com /2004/10/24/magazine/24ROBINSON.html?ei=5088&en=bd22db270849013d&ex=1256443200&partner=rssnyt&pagewanted=print&position= (3489 words)

	MPR: 'Gilead' explores eternity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When author Marilynne Robinson's first novel came out more than 20 years ago, she was hailed as a strikingly original new voice.
		Charles says Robinson's story is all the more extraordinary because, although she's writing about intricate complex themes, she didn't indulge in the literary pyrotechnics you'll find in other fiction.
		Olivia Boler confessed that she hopes Marilynne Robinson is already at work on the story of what becomes of John Ames' son.
	minnesota.publicradio.org /display/web/2006/02/27/mrobinson (828 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . BOOK REVIEW . GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson . March 18, 2005 \| PBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robinson makes use of a form -- the epistolary novel -- that is classic but one of the most difficult to pull off well.
		Robinson has given her protagonist a strong, unique voice -- he disdains what he calls the pulpit talking -- that seems in its own way biblical but not the Bible of the King James Version.
		Robinson's handling of the issue is careful and tragically appropriate for the story's time: two years after the landmark BROWN V. BOARD OF EDUCATION school desegregation decision and just months before the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, which would launch the modern civil rights movement.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week829/review.html (750 words)

	Bookslut \| Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
		Marilynne Robinson published her first book -- the beautiful and haunting Housekeeping -- in 1981, a novel which has managed to maintain a devoted and awestruck audience ever since.
		Robinson has written a new masterpiece, but it is nothing like her previous success.
		Marilynne Robinson has again brought us a perfect novel, hard to get into at first, perhaps, for those who are daunted by a book-length letter, but utterly rewarding in its finish.
	www.bookslut.com /fiction/2004_12_003824.php (548 words)

	Boise Weekly - Not Your Everyday Newspaper: Arts: Lit: Marilynne Robinson
		Marilynne Robinson, 2005 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead, is coming to the Egyptian Theatre on Tuesday, January 17, at 7:30 p.m.
		Robinson loves the phenomenon of readership and says she writes whatever is on her mind, without expectations.
		Robinson is a brilliant thinker and writer who hasn't lost her sense of wonder.
	www.boiseweekly.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:157224 (915 words)

	The Seattle Times: Books: "Gilead" was worth long wait
		Marilynne Robinson's many Northwest fans had to wait 23 years for her second novel.
		Robinson, now 61, earned her doctorate at the University of Washington, and returns to Seattle Friday for a rare reading.
		Like Robinson's volumes of essays ("The Death of Adam" and "Mother Country"), it is a literary work illuminated by a strong moral and spiritual world view.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/books/2002153762_robinson19.html (828 words)

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		Robinson's books are unalike in every way but one: the same incisive thought and careful prose illuminate both.
		Robinson takes the story away from being simply the reminiscences of one man and moves it into the realm of a meditation on fathers and children, particularly sons, on faith, and on the imperfectability of man.
		Robinson's prose asks the reader to slow down to the pace of an old man in Gilead, Iowa, in 1956.
	www.rebatestreet.com /0374153892_Gilead.aspx (596 words)

	Marilynne Robinson Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Marilynne Robinson's 1980 novel is a strange coming-of-age tale set in the Idaho mountains.
		Robinson brings her moral indignation to bear on the dangers to the environment posed by the Sellafield plutonium reprocessing plant in England's Lake District.
		These essays by Marilynne Robinson, who is best known for her 1980 novel HOUSEKEEPING, are about our society's obsession with consumerism and economics, at the expense of any kind of profound thinking or respect for knowledge.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Marilynne_Robinson (300 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Robert McCrum meets Marilynne Robinson
		Marilynne Robinson made fans wait 24 years for her second novel.
		Robinson was now living in the heart of America, teaching at the celebrated Iowa writing school.
		There's something rather English about Robinson when she utters such sentiments, but she was brought up in the woods of the far north west, Idaho and Montana, by a family who appear to have turned their backs on ranching to go into the lumber business.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Observer/review/story/0,6903,1450825,00.html (1422 words)

	Willow Springs, A Conversation with Marilynne Robinson
		Marilynne Robinson was born and raised in Sandpoint, Idaho.
		While writing her dissertation, Robinson began work on her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), which received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
		Robinson was interviewed in front of an audience at Eastern Washington University in Spokane.
	www.ewu.edu /willowsprings/Robinson.htm (299 words)

	Gilead by Marilynne Robinson - Multiple Book Reviews Book Jacket Summary
		Robinson's prose is beautiful, shimmering and precise; the revelations are subtle but never muted when they come, and the careful telling carries the breath of suspense....Many writers try to capture life's universals of strength, struggle, joy and forgiveness-but Robinson truly succeeds in what is destined to become her second classic.Â
		Robinson's 1981 debut, Housekeeping, was a perfect novel if ever there was one, and her long-awaited second novel proves just as captivating.
		Robinson's long-awaited second novel is an almost otherwordly book-and reveals Robinson as a somewhat otherwordly figure herself.
	www.bookbrowse.com /reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1501 (603 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson, Paperback, REPRINT
		Marilynne Robinson draws on all of these associations in her new novel, which -- let's say this right now -- is so serenely beautiful, and written in a prose so gravely measured and thoughtful, that one feels touched with grace just to read it.
		Robinson returns with a second novel that, however quiet in tone and however delicate of step, will do no less than tell the story of America-and break your heart.
		Marilynne Robinson is the author of the modern classic Housekeeping (FSG, 1981)--winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award--and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country (FSG, 1989) and The Death of Adam.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?z=y&EAN=9780312424404&itm=1 (1221 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures -Marilynne Robinson
		Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947 in Sandpoint, Idaho, where she grew up and attended high school.
		The novel is also steeped in images of the Northwest’s landscape—lakes, mountains, and forests—that reflect Robinson’s knowledge of and concern for the natural world.
		Although Robinson has published only three books, she is widely regarded as one of America’s best contemporary writers.
	www.lectures.org /robinson.html (805 words)

	Gilead's Balm
		Marilynne Robinson's long-awaited second novel is an almost otherworldly book—and reveals Robinson as a somewhat otherworldly figure herself.
		Marilynne Robinson talks about her long-awaited second novel and the holiness of the everyday
		Marilynne Robinson lives in Iowa City, where she is a teacher at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
	www.theatlantic.com /doc/200411u/int2004-11-17 (3509 words)

	Sioux City Journal: Iowa author Marilynne Robinson wins Pulitzer fiction category
		Robinson, 61, was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer for fiction for her novel "Gilead," a moving story about an Iowa preacher who spends his last days writing a letter about his life and his family heritage to his young son.
		Robinson, who teaches at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, says she is gratified by the reaction from readers and critics to a book like "Gilead," especially in an era when so many writers and publishers believe quality fiction must be outrageous, shocking or eccentric.
		For fans, Robinson offers no promises on the release of her next novel, something sure to bedevil those who had to wait more than 20 years between books.
	www.siouxcityjournal.com /articles/2005/04/05/news/latest_news/e08a26e29f4e67e286256fda004da5da.txt (782 words)

	UUA Melcher Award \| 2005 Winner: Marilynne Robinson
		Gilead is the long-anticipated second novel by Robinson, whose first book, Housekeeping, launched her career when it was published to wide acclaim in 1980.
		Marilynne Robinson—master and teacher of the written word, intrepid explorer of the human spirit, herald of an unfinished Reformation, author of the acclaimed novel, Gilead:
		We are proud, Marilynne Robinson, to announce that you are the recipient of the Melcher Book Award for the year 2004.
	www.uua.org /awards/melcher/2005robinson.html (799 words)

	Gilead - New York Magazine Book Review
		Marilynne Robinson’s penchant for moral outrage has gotten her into trouble in years past.
		As in Robinson’s superb first novel, the more subtly religious Housekeeping—an instant classic when it appeared 23 years ago—water is Gilead’s leitmotif, and her plain, spare, mostly unself-conscious language has the honest transparency of water.
		Robinson might make John Ames open to competing versions of Christianity; she might make him confess a minor spiritual weakness from time to time.
	newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/arts/books/reviews/10525 (986 words)

	Powell's Books - Gilead: A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
		Robinson's command of language, her deep understanding of humanity, and her own religious study come together in this outstanding novel.
		For a country dazzled by literary and military pyrotechnics, this quiet new novel from Marilynne Robinson couldn't be less compatible with the times — or more essential....There are passages here of such profound, hard-won wisdom and spiritual insight that they make your own life seem richer....
		Marilynne Robinson is the author of the modern classic Housekeeping — winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award — and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0374153892-0 (1004 words)

	» Book Review: “Gilead,” by Marilynne Robinson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marilynne Robinson has created a truly good character in Reverend Ames - not a sinless man (by any means) but the sort of man any of us would wish to become.
		Robinson would call herself a committed Christian or not (she sure writes like one, but I haven’t read about her background), but I will say that this book is worth about 35 of the books that find their way to the shelves of most Christian bookstores.
		Robinson is able to weave a compelling plot into the book, especially the second half.
	www.stpaulfellowship.org /pastorblog/?p=28 (932 words)

	Marilynne Robinson : Gilead : Book Review
		Gilead is Marilynne Robinson’s long awaited second novel, published twenty-three years after her first novel, Housekeeping.
		Robinson wrote another novel-length work of fiction, and in the months after Gilead’s publication in 2004, you could almost hear a collective "finally!" from critics and the public alike.
		In the years after publishing Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson went on to publish two works of non-fiction, contributed numerous articles and stories to various publications, and still teaches at the University of Iowa’s Writer’s Workshop.
	mostlyfiction.com /contemp/robinson.htm (940 words)

	Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers: Reading Guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Marilynne Robinson was born and raised in Idaho, where her family has lived for several generations.
		She received a B.A. from Brown University in 1966 and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Washington in 1977.
		Robinson lives in Iowa City, Iowa, with her family.
	www.fsgbooks.com /readersguides/robinson.htm (1284 words)

	Marilynne Robinson wins Pulitzer fiction category for 'quiet book' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Robinson's book, which also won the National Book Critics' Circle prize and was a finalist for the Penn/Faulkner Award, is about an Iowa preacher who spends his last days writing a letter about his life and his family heritage to his young son.
		It is the first piece of fiction in nearly a quarter century for the 61-year-old author, whose debut novel, "Housekeeping," won the PEN/Hemingway Award after its release in 1980.
		In 1989, Robinson accepted a position teaching at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop, which is the nation's oldest and most influential creative writing program.
	www.tampabaylive.com /entertainment/stories/0504/050405robinson.shtml (422 words)

	LA Weekly - Divine Invention
		Twenty-five years ago, Marilynne Robinson published Housekeeping, a strange and beautiful novel about orphan sisters living with their eccentric, possibly schizophrenic aunt on the shores of Lake Coeur dâHelene in Idaho.
		Robinson spoke to the Weekly via e-mail from Iowa City, where she teaches at the Iowa Writersâ Workshop.
		She might, out of the goodness of her heart and for token pay, also be serving another church in another town a long drive away, since these little congregations are the heart and soul of such places, and are essential to keeping them on the map.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/05/09/books-huneven.php (1496 words)

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