Marilynne Robinson, Obama’s favourite contemporary novelist, says we all have a duty to raise our intellectual game
As a child Marilynne Robinson was enthralled by writing poetry. As an adult, she says, it has never been quite the same. ‘During a thunderstorm or something like that I would write some crazy poem and then hide it.
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