The Givenness of Things: Essays - Marilynne Robinson

Robinson, Marilynne: - Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for her grace and intelligence in writing. She is the author of Gilead , winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home , winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and Lila , winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping , won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. 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 . She lives in Iowa City, Iowa.