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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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- “There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and de…”Marilynne Robinson
- “Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are either immeas…”Marilynne Robinson
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- “I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.”Amitabh Bachchan
- “I once made a solemn vow that I could not keep... I am from this world. Even with all its failures and suffer…”K. Farrell St. Germain
- “I amMavis Elizabeth Betterly.I amused to hard work.I canrun a household betterthan Mrs. Oblinger ever could.W…”Caroline Starr Rose
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Books by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2004
Home
2008
Lila
2014
Jack
2020
What are we doing here?
2019