Episode #41: Marilynne Robinson
Rewrite Radio Podcast by the Calvin Center for Faith & Writing
Episode Summary
In Episode #41 of Rewrite Radio, we are joined by Marilynne Robinson. Robinson is the author of four novels: Housekeeping, winner of the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for the best first novel published in 1980; Gilead, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; Home, the winner of the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction; and, most recently, Lila. Robinson has also written books of non-fiction, including Mother Country, The Death of Adam, Absence of Mind, When I Was a Child I Read Book, and The Givenness of Things. Her essays have appeared in such publications as Harper’s, The Paris Review, and the New York Review of Books. Robinson’s other honors include the National Humanities Medal and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction, as well as nominations for both the National Book Award and the Man Booker.
She spent much of her career teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, from which she retired in 2016 - that was the same year Time magazine named her on its annual list of 100 most influential people.
Theme music is Modern Attempt by TrackTribe and June 11 by Andrew Starr.
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