American Public Media's Speaking of Faith with Krista Tippett, January 29, 2009
In this week's program, a conversation with Mary Doria Russell, a paleoanthropologist turned novelist. She has grappled with large moral and religious questions on and off the page, and we discover what she discerned — in the act of creating a new universe — about God and about dilemmas of evil, doubt, and free will. The ultimate moral of any life and any event, she believes, only shows itself across generations. And so the novelist, like God, she says, paints with the brush of time. (Time 52:08) Website with additional links

Children of God was nominated for a 1999 British Science Fiction Association Award in the 'Best Novel' category. The Sparrow was the BSFA's winner for Best Novel of 1997.

Of Prayers and Predators
An Interview with Mary Doria Russell by Nick Gevers of Infinity Plus.

National Public Radio's All Things Considered, October 14, 1996. Alan Cheuse reviews The Sparrow, Mary's first novel. Set in the Twenty-First Century, it's the story of an American Jesuit and his encounter with extra-terrestrial life. (Time 1:45)