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Yale Literature
and Spirituality Series
MARILYNNE ROBINSON
winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
November 10 4:15 pm Yale Divinity School Common Room, 409 Prospect
St., New Haven
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction,
will read from her work as part of the Yale Literature and Spirituality
Series on November 10. The reading, followed by a book-signing and
reception, will be held in the Divinity School Common Room at 409
Prospect Street in New Haven at 4:15. The reading is free and open
to the public; free parking is available.
Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, which won
the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics
Circle Award for Fiction.
Robinson is also the author of the modern classic Housekeeping
(available in paperback from Picador), which won the PEN/Ernest
Hemmingway Award for First Fiction and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal
Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, and was nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize. Robinson received a Lila Wallace-Reader's
Digest Writer's Award in 1990 and the prestigious Mildred and Harold
Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts in 1998.
She is also the author of two books of nonfiction, Mother Country
and The Death of Adam (which will be reissued by Picador
in November 2005.) She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers'
Workshop.
The Yale Literature and Spirituality Series is presented by Yale
Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity Student Book Supply.
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