2009-2010 Faith & Life Lecture Series 
Concludes with Pulitzer Prize-Winner Marilynne Robinson
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson will speak on “Faith & The Writing Life: A Dialogue of Self and Soul” on Friday, May 7, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. at St. Philip the Deacon Lutheran Church, 17205 County Road Six, Plymouth, 55447. The event is free and open to the public.
Robinson is the author of Gilead, which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, Home, a companion to Gilead, won the 2008 L.A. Times Book Prize for fiction and the 2009 Orange Prize for fiction. She is also the author of the modern classic Housekeeping, which won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway 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.
To learn more about Robinson, read an interview with her from PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.
The Faith & Life Lectures are open and welcoming public forums where nationally known speakers reflect on how Christian faith intersects with different dimensions of everyday life. Visit www.faith-and-life.org for more information, or call 763-475-7136, or e-mail twestermeyer@spdlc.org.
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