Robinson at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

Marilynne Robinson and Salvatore Scibona have both received National Book Award nominations. Robinson was nominated for Home, a companion novel to her Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead. Scibona was chosen for his debut novel about immigration and family loyalties, The End.

Marilynne Robinson, whose writing has been described as "beautiful, shimmering, precise," is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Housekeeping (FSG, 1980). She has also authored two books of nonfiction, Mother Country (FSG, 1989) and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Winners of the National Book Award, each of whom receive $10,000, will be announced Nov. 19.

Salvatore Scibona is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His fiction has been published in the Threepenny Review, Best New American Voices 2004, and The Pushcart Book of Short Stories: The Best Stories from a Quarter-Century of the Pushcart Prize. This is his first book.

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