Robinson's fictional town is called Gilead, a name fairly common among early 19th century American towns because, as Robinson says, people settling this country "had these Utopian intentions. I think people forget in the metropolitan areas of the country that the country really is largely made up of small towns that function well for the most part." "There is a definite Iowa aesthetic," says Robinson. Her latest novels, Gilead and Home, are both set in the same small town. But for most of the past 20 years she has been teaching at the University of Iowa's famed writers workshop, and during that time she has fallen in love with the rolling fields and small towns that are sprinkled throughout the Iowa countryside. Robinson first won literary fame with her novel Housekeeping, which was set in Idaho where she grew up. It is, she says, a word that can be easily misused, and Robinson - whose writing has been described as "beautiful, shimmering, precise" - is nothing if not careful with words.
Though her books are imbued with an old-fashioned Protestant ethic, Marilynne Robinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead, is uncomfortable with too much talk about morality.
The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winners Novel 'Gilead' Offers Compelling Take On Life And Death
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