Her 2014 novel Lila provides the backstory for the wife of her recurring character John Ames, a Congregationalist minister in a small town in Iowa.
One of this author's title characters washes herself in a river in order to undo her recent baptism, and is taken in as a child by an itinerant woman named Doll. Greenpeace sued this author for writing that it withheld information about the Sellafield plutonium processing plant in her book Mother Country. This author defended John Calvin against modern misreadings in her essay collection The Death of Adam, and wrote a novel in which (*) Helen abandons her two daughters by driving into a lake. Jack Boughton returns to his hometown in her second novel, which was published twenty-four years after her novel in which Sylvie attempts to raise Ruth and Lucille in the town of Fingerbone. Her 2014 novel Lila provides the backstory for the wife of her recurring character John Ames, a Congregationalist minister in a small town in Iowa. For 10 points, For 10 points, name this American author of the novels Housekeeping and Gilead.
One of this author's title characters washes herself in a river in order to undo her recent baptism, and is taken in as a child by an itinerant woman named Doll.
Marilynne Robinson