Marilynne Robinson

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

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

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.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "2004". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  3. "Marilynne Robinson". The National Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
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