by Shannon L. Mariotti (Editor), Joseph H. Lane (Editor)
Marilynne Robinson is arguably one of the most important writers of our time. Her voice resonates across the richly imagined American landscapes within which she grounds her stories of love and loss, alienation and belonging, injustice and redemption. Robinson's award-winning body of work--including 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
Author Biography
Shannon L. Mariotti, associate professor of political science at Southwestern University, is the author of Thoreau's Democratic Withdrawal: Alienation, Participation, and Modernity and Adorno and Democracy: The American Years. Joseph H. Lane Jr. is the Hawthorne Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics at Emory & Henry College, where he also directs the college Honors Program. He is a coauthor of The Deconstitutionalization of America and coeditor of Engaging Nature: Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon.