Marilynne Robinson
American novelist whose Gilead novels form a meditation on Calvinist faith, grace, and the American Protestant tradition unlike anything else in modern fiction. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her essays are equally celebrated.
Works
- HousekeepingTwo sisters navigate aging and isolation through ritual and memory
- GileadDying minister writes letters to grandson about faith and loss
- HomeElderly woman visits estranged son to reconcile before death
- LilaHomeless drifter pursues redemption and transcendence through faith
- JackMan returns to minister's home seeking forgiveness and connection