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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.
More from Marilynne Robinson (155 quotes) →Other sayings from Marilynne Robinson
- “How I wish you could have known me in my strength.”Marilynne Robinson
- “Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an ab…”Marilynne Robinson
- “The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is li…”Marilynne Robinson
- “It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying.”Marilynne Robinson
Poetry: more sayings
- “I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful…”Candace Bushnell
- “There was actually a rock poetry class at my school.”Michael Penn
- “Spend all you have for loveliness,Buy it and never count the cost;For one white singing hour of peaceCount ma…”Sara Teasdale
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Books by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2004
Home
2008
Lila
2014
Jack
2020
What are we doing here?
2019