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Marilynne Robinson, whose book "Gilead" won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, will be at the UA Poetry Center on Friday.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson will read from her work on Friday at 8 p.m. at The University of Arizona Poetry Center as part of the UA Prose Series, sponsored by the UA English department and the College of Humanities. The event is free and open to the public.

Robinson also will lecture on poet Wallace Stevens on Saturday at 1 p.m. during an event sponsored by the Poetry Center. The lecture will be held at the Helen S. Schaefer Building, 1508 E. Helen St.

Robinson' novel "Gilead" won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. She also is the author of the modern classic "Housekeeping," which won the PEN/Ernest Hemingway Award for First Fiction and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Robinson also earned a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writer's Award in 1990 and the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts in 1998.

She is the author of two books of nonfiction, "Mother Country" and "The Death of Adam."  Her just-released novel, "Home," is a companion piece to "Gilead."

Robinson teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

"Robinson's filigrees always have a purpose, or several: her sentences are like tiny depth charges packed with references both internal and external," according to a review in The New York Times.