Gilead wins 2005 Pulitzer

An excerpt fro Gilead...

I told you last night that I might be gone sometime, and you said, Where, and I said, To be with the Good Lord, and you said, Why, and I said, Because I'm old, and you said, I don't think you're old. And you put your hand in my hand and you said, You aren't very old, as if that settled it. I told you you might have a very different life from mine, and from the life you've had with me and that would be a wonderful thing, there are many ways to live a good life.

Today the 2005 Pullitzer Prize Winners were announced. Marilynne Robinson won the Pen/ Hemingway Award for her first novel twenty-three years ago. Gilead is her second.

Robinson's work and writing life is a testament in itself. To have written only two novels, both acclaimed. It's simple, yet awesome. Good for her.

Click on title to read Robinson's discussion on poetry and theology at PBS' "Religion and Ethics."