Marilynne Robinson's Quest for Theological Space - La Civiltà Cattolica

“Writing, at least for me, is primarily an exploration of intuition.”[1] Born in Sandpoint, Idaho, in 1943, Marilynne Robinson is one of the most important American writers of our time, despite having published only five novels and a number of short essays in four decades. Since Housekeeping[2] was published in 1980, it has been followed by Gilead in 2004, Home in 2008, Lila in 2014, and Jack in 2020. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for …