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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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- “remembering and forgiving can be contrary things”Marilynne Robinson
- “I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleas…”Marilynne Robinson
- “We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears were people…”Marilynne Robinson
- “There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”Marilynne Robinson
Reflections: more sayings
- “Well, why not just snap my damn olive branch and beat me with it? I was only trying to help.”Carrie Butler
- “I've always viewed myself as a better hitter than obviously a .200 or sub-.200 guy. That's what I view myself…”Kyle Schwarber
- “When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very…”Roland Emmerich
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Books by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2004
Home
2008
Lila
2014
Jack
2020
What are we doing here?
2019