Episode 022: Marilynne Robinson and Gilead

Here at the Carver College of Medicine, on the campus of the University of Iowa which is famous for its legacy of writing and writers, we are lucky enough to receive occasional visits from some pretty outstanding authors.  Recently, during the annual CCOM Reads contest, medical students were encouraged to read author and Iowa Writers' Workshop Professor Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, a novel for which she won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.  It's an account of the memories of John Ames of his father and grandfather, all of whom are Congregationalist ministers in Gilead, Iowa.  After the contest was over, we asked Ms. Robinson to visit with the students to talk about her writing of the novel.

Listen: Episode 022 - Marilynne Robinson and Gilead