Marilynne Robinson
Author of Gilead
About the Author
Marilynne Robinson's first novel, Housekeeping, won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. Her other novels include Mother Country and Lila. Gilead won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award and Home won the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her show more nonfiction books include When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, and The Death of Adam. She was the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama. She received the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016. She has been named the winner of the Richard C Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. She was included on Time magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Series
Works by Marilynne Robinson
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010) — Author — 433 copies
No title 2 copies
Robinson Marilynne 1 copy
Associated Works
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories {9 stories} (1899) — Introduction, some editions — 1,134 copies
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributor — 140 copies
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (2007) — Contributor — 125 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 83 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Robinson, Marilynne
- Legal name
- Summers Robinson, Marilynne
- Birthdate
- 1943-11-26
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Sandpoint, Idaho, USA
- Places of residence
- Sandpoint, Idaho, USA
Iowa City, Iowa, USA - Education
- Brown University (BA, 1966)
University of Washington (PhD, English, 1977) - Occupations
- Professor of English and Creative Writing
novelist
essayist - Organizations
- University of Iowa (Writers' Workshop)
- Awards and honors
- Dwight H. Terry Lectureship
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2011)
Man Booker International Prize Finalist (2013)
National Humanities Medal (2012)
Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (1980)
Library of Congress Prize (American Fiction ∙ 2016) - Agent
- Ellen Levine (The Ellen Levine Literary Agency)
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Gilead in Someone explain it to me... (July 2014)
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Statistics
- Works
- 19
- Also by
- 14
- Members
- 27,404
- Popularity
- #748
- Rating
- 3.9
- Reviews
- 935
- ISBNs
- 360
- Languages
- 21
- Favorited
- 142