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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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- “Love is not an imagination but a radiating light from the heart.”Debasish Mridha
- “Learning is the most important thing, no mater how you do it, or where you do it, or who you do it with.”Saoirse Ronan
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Books by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2004
Home
2008
Lila
2014
Jack
2020
What are we doing here?
2019