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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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- “Like you're riding a train at night across some vast plain, and youcatch a glimpse of a tiny light in a windo…”Haruki Murakami
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- “Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.”Gina Greenlee
Explore Existence
- “You are here because some sliver of existence within you says that you are a born fighter. That you will put…”Melissa West
- “What is this 'I'? If you analyse it closely you will, I think, find that it is just a little bit more than a…”Erwin Schrödinger
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Books by Marilynne Robinson
Gilead
2004
Home
2008
Lila
2014
Jack
2020
What are we doing here?
2019