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Marilynne Robinson
born 1943
Born Sandpoint, Idaho
Acclaimed author Marilynne Robinson first appeared on the literary scene in 1980 with her novel Housekeeping. The book went on to win the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Award,and Robinson spent the following two decades teaching and writing nonfiction for publications such as Harper's and the New York Times Book Review.
Gilead (2004), which examines the role of faith in rural American life, garnered the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Robinson is regarded as one of the nation's most important contemporary writers and distinguishes herself through her nuanced and thoughtful engagement with themes of family and Christianity.
She has written about literature as a basis for empathy: "I think fiction may be, whatever else, an exercise in the capacity for imaginative love, or sympathy, or identification." In 2012, Robinson was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama.
Alec Soth (born 1969)
Inkjet print, 2014 (printed 2015) |