Marilynne Robinson made her literary debut in 1981 with the novel Housekeeping, which received a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. This year, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her second novel, Gilead, which was published last fall. Parts of the novel originally appeared in The New Yorker.
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