MARILYNNE ROBINSON
2009
Marilynne Robinson, author of the novel Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, will offer a series of four lectures the last two weeks of March, "Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self." The lectures, which are scheduled for March 24, 26, 31 and April 2, will take place in room 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, and will begin at 4:30 p.m. They are free and open to the public.

Ms. Robinson is also the author of Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award for First Fiction, as well as the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters. Housekeeping was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, Home, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.

Ms. Robinson, who currently teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, received a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award in 1990 and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts in 1998. She is the author of two books of nonfiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam.

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