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So unusual is Marilynne Robinson's position in American letters - a critically acclaimed religious author in a secular age - that it's hard to know what those unfamiliar with the Bible see in her.
Certainly, Robinson's language - her limpid prose and sparkling depiction of the natural world - int
Marilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist, best known for her works Gilead (2005), Home (2008), and Lila (2014), which are all set in small-town Iowa across the 20th century and revolve around two families of Protestant preachers. Her writing is gentle but compelling, and suffused with biblical themes played out in the lives of ordinary believers living on the American plains.