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The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

The independent newspaper of the University of Iowa community since 1868

The Daily Iowan

Marilynne Robinson read Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "The American Scholar" at Englert Theater on December 9, 2015. (Daily Iowan/Karley Finkel)

Workshop’s Robinson to retire

One of the greatest living novelists in the country has announced her retirement from the University of Iowa. Marilynne Robinson, the F. Wendell Mills Professor of Creative Writing at the Iowa Writers’...

Marilynne Robinson read Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay "The American Scholar" at Englert Theater on December 9, 2015. (Daily Iowan/Karley Finkel)

Marilynne Robinson honored with fiction award

Marilynne Robinson will soon have another award to add to her growing list of honors. Her other awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction she won in 2005 and the National Humanities Medal that U.S....