Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist
Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist.
Marilynne Robinson | |
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.jpg) Robinson in 2012 | |
| Born | Marilynne Summers November 26, 1943 Sandpoint, Idaho, US |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist |
| Alma mater |
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| Notable awards |
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| Spouse |
Fred Miller Robinson
(m. 1967; div. 1989) |
| Children | 2 |
Robinson has won many honors for her writing. Her novel Gilead, for example, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.[1][2] In 2012, President Obama gave her the National Humanities Medal.[3]
Books
change- Housekeeping (1980)
- Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989)
- The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998)
- Gilead (2004)
- Home (2008)
- Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010)
- When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012)
- Lila (2014)
- The Givenness of Things: Essays (2015)
- What Are We Doing Here?: Essays (2018)
- Jack (2020)
Awards
change- 1982: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel for Housekeeping
- 1982: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlist for Housekeeping
- 1989: National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlist for Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
- 1999: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for The Death of Adam
- 2004: National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Gilead
- 2005: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Gilead
- 2005: Ambassador Book Award for Gilead
- 2006: University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
- 2008: National Book Award finalist for Home
- 2008: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction for Home
- 2009: Orange Prize for Fiction for Home
- 2011: Man Booker International Prize nominee
- 2012: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Brown University
- 2012: National Humanities Medal for "grace and intelligence in writing"
- 2013: Man Booker International Prize nominee
- 2013: Park Kyong-ni Prize
- 2014: National Book Critics Circle Award for Lila
- 2014: National Book Award finalist for Lila
- 2015: Man Booker Prize longlist for Lila
- 2016: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and Dayton Literary Peace Prize
References
change- ↑ "The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2023. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
- ↑ "2004". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
- ↑ "Marilynne Robinson". The National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
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