Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson
Robinson in 2012
Robinson in 2012
BornMarilynne Summers
(1943-11-26) November 26, 1943 (age 81)
Sandpoint, Idaho, US
OccupationNovelist, essayist
Alma mater
Notable awards
Spouse
Fred Miller Robinson
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(m. 1967; div. 1989)​
Children2

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  1. ↑ "The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2023. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
  2. ↑ "2004". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  3. ↑ "Marilynne Robinson". The National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2023-02-28.