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Marilynne Robinson

Author of Gilead

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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 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) — biography from Gilead… (more)
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The Sound and the Fury (Foreword, some editions) 16,471 copies, 221 reviews
The Awakening (Introduction, some editions) 8,818 copies, 177 reviews
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories {9 stories} (Introduction, some editions) 1,121 copies, 14 reviews
The Future Dictionary of America (Contributor) 619 copies, 3 reviews
The Best American Essays 2007 (Contributor) 463 copies, 11 reviews
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic… (Contributor) 122 copies, 4 reviews
The Life of Meaning: Reflections on Faith, Doubt, and Repairing the World (Contributor) 114 copies, 5 reviews
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 (Contributor) 104 copies
Granta 15: The Fall of Saigon (Contributor) 96 copies, 1 review
The Granta Book of Reportage (Classics of Reportage) (Contributor) 90 copies, 1 review
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the… (Contributor) 68 copies
The Virago Book of Wanderlust and Dreams (Contributor) 36 copies, 1 review
The Best Spiritual Writing 2012 (Contributor) 25 copies, 1 review
The New Salmagundi Reader (Contributor) 3 copies
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