A Study Guide for Marilynne Robinson's Gilead
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Gilead
Marilynne Robinson
2004
Introduction
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson was published in 2004 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, amid widespread acclaim. This epistolary novel presents a sympathetic portrait of Reverend John Ames, who writes about his life and his beliefs ever mindful of the fact that he has only a short time to live. Reverend Ames takes up the task of writing in the hopes that his little boy will read this book when he is an adult and thus become acquainted with the father he may barely remember otherwise.
This is a story of fathers and sons. John Ames, the narrator, tells a story of three generations of fathers named John Ames, addressing it to the single direct descendent, the unnamed son readers may assume is the fourth John Ames. The story of the Ames family includes the story of the narrator's best friend, Robert Boughton, and his son who was named after the narrator, John Ames Boughton. In order to reduce confusion, these characters are referred to here in terms of their relationship to the narrator, that is, the narrator's grandfather, the narrator's father, and the narrator's son, to whom the narrator addresses himself in this text. As in the novel, Reverend Boughton's son is referred to by his nickname, Jack.
Author Biography
Source material providing biographical information on Marilynne Robinson is scant and all too often conflicting in its facts, focusing on her publications and the host of awards she has won, rather than on biographical details. Robinson was born in Sand-point, Idaho, probably in 1944 (though 1943 and 1947 are also reported), where she grew up and there attended Coeur d'Alene High School, from which she graduated in 1962. She graduated in 1966 with a B.A. in history and religion from Pembroke College in Warren, Rhode Island, an institution which became affiliated with Brown University in 1971. In 1977, Robinson received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington.
Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, was published in 1980. The work, which is dedicated to Robinson's husband and four wonderful boys,
was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and won the PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel. In the 1980s, Robinson wrote essays for such publications as Paris Review, New York Book Times Review of Books, and Harper's. She also began teaching and was a writer-in-residence at various colleges and universities, including the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, and the University of Kent.
As of 2006, Robinson has published two works of nonfiction. The first was the controversial Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989), a thoroughly researched exposé of the Sellafield Nuclear Processing Plant, exploring the nuclear energy industry, its environmental impact, and its opponents, specifically Greenpeace, an organization that successfully sued the British publisher of this book for libel and got the book banned in England. Nonetheless, Mother Country was a National Book Award finalist in the United States.
Sometime after that publication, Robinson and her husband divorced, and she eventually joined the faculty of the Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she remained through the 1990s and into the first decade of the twenty-first century. In 1998, she published The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought, a collection of prose pieces that mostly had appeared originally