On Tuesday, April 11, the renowned novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson joined Reverend Dr. Robert Allan Hill for a public conversation about her life and work. 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. In 2021, all four Gilead novels were selected for Oprah’s Book Club. Robinson’s nonfiction books include What Are We Doing Here?, The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country.
This event was sponsored by Kilachand Honors College, Boston University Center for the Humanities, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Affairs, Dean of Arts & Sciences, BU Arts Initiative, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, CAS Core Curriculum, Dean of the School of Theology, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, NEH Distinguished Teaching Professorship, CAS Associate Dean of the Faculty for the Humanities.
The Conversation was held in the BU Photonics Center, Room 206, 8 St. Mary’s Street at 6:30pm. Admission was free and open to the public, but a reservation was required.
