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About Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist
Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. She has written across several decades and is widely known for her fiction and nonfiction. Her work has earned major recognition, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016. Robinson taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1991 until her retirement in spring 2016. In 2016, Time included her on its list of the 100 most influential people. Her writing has been recognized for its literary seriousness and for the range of ideas it addresses.
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- “I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.”Marilynne Robinson
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- “Galeni made her smile but not laugh. The lack of any sense of play between them worried Miles”you had to have a keen sense of humor to do sex and stay sane.
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- “At the time I could no more believe my eyes than I can now trust my memory.”W.G. Sebald
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- “God lives in the Now. There is always peace in the present moment.”Dragos Bratasanu
- “Peace with God and the peace of God in a man’s heart and the joy of fellowship with Christ have in themselves…”Billy Graham
- “Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Books by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2004
Home
2008
Lila
2014
Jack
2020
What are we doing here?
2019