She was the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing. The author of Gilead on the Black Lives Matter protests, the dangers of social media, and her latest novel, Jack Sat 13.00 EDT M arilynne Robinson is an American novelist and. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award (2016), the Orange Prize for Fiction (2009), the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2005, 2014), the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (1999), and the Louisville Gravemeyer Award in Religion (2006). Her awards include the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2016), the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Robinson's nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Robinson’s Gilead novels, which have won one Pulitzer Prize and two National Book Critics Circle Awards, are a vital contribution to contemporary American literature and a revelation of our national character and humanity.Marilynne Robinson is the author of four novels, including Gilead (2005), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Home (2008), winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Lila (2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Their deeply felt, tormented, star-crossed interracial romance resonates with all the paradoxes of American life, then and now. In it, Robinson tells the story of John Ames Boughton, the prodigal son of Gilead’s Presbyterian minister, and his romance with Della Miles, a high school teacher who is also the child of a preacher. Jack is Robinson’s fourth novel in this now-classic series. Marilynne Robinson’s mythical world of Gilead, Iowa-the setting of her novels Gilead, Home, and Lila, and now Jack-and its beloved characters have illuminated and interrogated the complexities of American history, the power of our emotions, and the wonders of a sacred world.
Marilynne Robinson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Humanities Medal, returns to the world of Gilead with Jack, the latest novel in one of the great works of contemporary American fiction
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