Tue Jan 28, 6:00 PM - Tue Jan 28, 7:30 PM
in 42 days
in 42 days
31 McAlister Dr, New Orleans, LA 70118
Community: Uptown New Orleans
Description
The Carole Barnette Boudreaux '65 Great Writers Series welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson to Tulane University's Uptown campus for a public talk.
Event Details
Marilynne Robinson is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing." She is the author of "Gilead," winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; "Home," winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and "Lila," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her first novel, "Housekeeping," won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. In 2021, all four "Gilead "novels were selected for Oprah’s Book Club. Robinson's nonfiction books include "Reading Genesis," "What Are We Doing Here?," "The Givenness of Things," "When I Was a Child I Read Books," "Absence of Mind," "The Death of Adam," and "Mother Country."
Robinson's books will be available for sale after the talk and she will be doing a book signing. There will be a reception with food and beverages after the talk in the Garage and Small Family Collaboration Hub in Lake Hall.
Robinson's books will be available for sale after the talk and she will be doing a book signing. There will be a reception with food and beverages after the talk in the Garage and Small Family Collaboration Hub in Lake Hall.
