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| Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Home, Gilead and Housekeeping, and the nonfiction works The Death of Adam and Mother Country. Housekeeping was included in The New York Times Books of the Century and listed as one of the 100 greatest novels of all time by the UK Guardian Observer. In 2005, she received a Pulitzer Prize for Gilead, a novel about the experiences and thoughts of a small-town Iowa minister. In 1997, she received a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a five-year stipend totaling a quarter of a million dollars that was established to enable writers to focus entirely on their work without requiring other employment. The University granted her a five-year leave of absence, but after 18 months, Robinson turned down the remainder of the stipend to return to teaching in the Workshop. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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I love teaching. I can't tell you how much I have learned from it. And the Workshop is entirely shaped around respect for writing and for writers, both faculty and students. It is as fruitful as it is for very good reasons. |
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