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Lost Horse Press & the East Bonner County Library proudly present An
Afternoon with Marilynne Robinson, a reading, question and answer
session, and book signing by Sandpoint-born, Pulitzer Prize winning author, Marilynne
Robinson; also featuring an exclusive reading by Sandpoint Library’s young adult
writers’ group, the Blue Dragons. The program will take place on Sunday, 14 May
2006 at Sandpoint’s historic Panida Theater at 3 in the afternoon. Admission is
by donation; proceeds will be used to support the Young Writers of the Lost Horse
creative writing & book arts conference for children sponsored annually by the
East Bonner County Library and Lost Horse Press. This program is made possible
by generous donations from Friends of the Sandpoint Library, Coldwater Creek,
Idaho Commission on the Arts and Bonners Books.
Marilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Robinson is also the author of the modern classic Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Ernest Hemmingway Award for First Fiction and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Robinson received a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award in 1990 and the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts in 1998. She is also the author of two books of nonfiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.
Lisa Shea of Elle magazine affirms, “Marilynne Robinson’s rapturous novel Gilead follows by 23 years her best-selling first novel, Housekeeping, which is widely regarded as a modern classic. What these books share is Robinson’s passionate knowledge of the history and habits of the American heartland, as well as an incandescently religious turn of mind. The way in which [Rev. Jonathan] Ames rises to every moral, mortal occasion while struggling with his deep pain and doubt infuses his story with astonishing powers of both spiritual and quotidian insight and grace—qualities in which Robinson herself appears well-versed, having preached over the years at her church in Iowa. Gilead is an inspired work from a writer whose sensibility seems steeped in holy fire.
For additional information, please contact Lost Horse Press at 208.255.4410, email losthorsepress@mindspring.com
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