But that is precisely what Marilynne Robinson has done ... Amazingly, she hasn't written one since, until Gilead. Although the book is written in the form of a letter from a 77-year-old preacher ...

Marilynne Robinson’s novels always leave me with ... turn radiant at once,” writes John Ames, the narrator of Gilead, an ...

Before the event, Robinson joined a group of students interested in creative writing and literary criticism for a discussion ...