American novelist and essayist — author of Housekeeping and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead tetralogy — and one of the most significant religious intellectuals in contemporary American life.
Two contributions: (1) As novelist, Robinson produced Gilead (2004) — narrated by a dying Congregationalist minister in Iowa — which won the Pulitzer and is widely considered one of the finest American novels of the 21st century. (2) As essayist, Robinson's collections (The Death of Adam, Absence of Mind, When I Was a Child I Read Books) have made the serious case for Protestant Christianity, the value of the Calvinist tradition, and the inadequacy of materialist reductionism — from a position of genuine erudition in theology, science, and literature.
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