The Givenness of Things

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Lila (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), Home, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Housekeeping, and four books of nonfiction: When I Was a Child I Read Books, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, and Absence of Mind. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. You can sign up for email updates here.