Marilynne Robinson, one of the greatest novelists of our time, returns us to the town of Gilead in her new novel LILA. “There is the precision and lyrical power of her language, and the way it embodies a struggle—the fight to use the best words to describe both the visible and the invisible world,” wrote James Wood. Robinson will read from and discuss her latest, magisterial work of fiction, the story of a girlhood lives on the fringes of society in fear, awe and wonder.  

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Home, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Housekeeping, and four books of nonfiction, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Mother Country, The Death of Adam, and Absence of Mind. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. 

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