While he was US president, Barack Obama interviewed Marilynne Robinson about her views on the logical connection between religious humanism and a just political system

Marilynne Robinson is a novelist, essayist and professor. She is the author of the novels Housekeeping, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Lila, and Home, as well as the essay collection, The Givenness of Things.

She lives in Iowa, where she recently retired after 25 years’ teaching at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at the University of Iowa.

She was interviewed by President Barack Obama in Des Moines, Iowa, on 14 September 2015 for The New York Review of Books.