![]() ![]() In 2005, Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Robinson wrote two follow-up novels, which follow the characters from Gilead over the course of the next ten years. After the publication of Housekeeping, Robinson turned to nonfiction and completed several books of critical work-she would not release her next novel, Gilead, for over twenty years. She penned Housekeeping in the late 1970s, and though she expected it to receive little attention, it became an object of national acclaim and the winner of the prestigious PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. After studying American Literature at Pembroke College (the former women’s college at Brown University), she went on to earn a doctorate in English from the University of Washington, where she wrote her dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henry VI, Part 2. She was close with her brother, who also grew up to become a writer and an art historian. ![]() Marilynne Robinson was born Marilynne Summers in Sandpoint, Idaho in 1943. ![]()
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