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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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- “Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long…”Marilynne Robinson
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- “Let the Third World get some self-determination. Let the Nicaraguans make their own mistakes.”David Dellinger
- “This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature. Look at our parents--were t…”Julian Barnes
- “I have learned from my mistakes... the business we are in is cutthroat. I have seen too many older blokes giv…”Sonny Bill Williams
Truth: more sayings
- “I gotta be honest with you... I hate numbers. I hate chapter numbers. I hate them.”Garth Stein
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Books by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2004
Home
2008
Lila
2014
Jack
2020
What are we doing here?
2019