Reverend John Ames is a Midwestern minister nearing the end of his life in 1956. We should think of our humanity as a privilege." - Marilynne Robinson in The Paris Review "We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of this, literature has come out of it. Writes Mark O'Connell in The New Yorker, "I have read and loved a lot of literature about religion and religious experience-Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flannery O'Connor, the Bible-but it's only with Robinson that I have actually felt what it must be like to live with a sense of the divine." Introduction to the Book "One feels touched with grace just to read it" ( The Washington Post). "Robinson has composed a novel as big as a nation, as quiet as thought, and moving as prayer" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred). Her novel Gilead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004)-set in Iowa about a preacher looking back on his life, his family legacy, and his beliefs-won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. It deserves all the attention you can give it." -from GileadĬalled a "literary miracle" by Entertainment Weekly and included on TIME Magazine's list of "100 most influential people," award-winning author, essayist, and philosopher Marilynne Robinson was awarded a National Humanities Medal in 2012. Writes Mark O'Connell in The New Yorker, "I have read and loved a lot of literature about religion and religious experience-Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flannery O'Connor, the Bible-but it's only with Robinson that I have actually felt what it must be like to live with a sense of the divine."
Called a "literary miracle" by Entertainment Weekly and included on TIME Magazine's list of "100 most influential people," award-winning author, essayist, and philosopher Marilynne Robinson was awarded a 2012 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama, one of her biggest fans.
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