What Now? Finding an American Future

This event is part Yale University’s Presidential Lecture Series. Each semester, a leading expert will visit Yale to share ideas and inspire critical thought on today's most complex topics. Marilynne Robinson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist. Her novels include Housekeeping (1980), Gilead (2004), Home (2008), Lila (2014), and Jack (2020). She is also the author of many non-fiction works, articles, essays and reviews. Her most recent book, Reading Genesis, is a collection of essays that explore the literary and theological interpretations of the first book of the Bible.