Marilynne Robinson

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'''Marilynne Robinson''' (born November 26, 1943) is a award-winning American author and essayist.

==Biography==
Robinson was born and grew up in [[Sandpoint, Idaho]], and did her undergraduate work at [[Pembroke College (Brown University)|Pembroke College]], the former [[women's college]] at [[Brown University]], receiving her [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1966. She received her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in English from the [[University of Washington]] in 1977. <ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Reading%20the%20Region/Northwest%20Schools%20of%20Literature/Commentary/9.html|date= Undated|accessdate= 2008-04-13| title=
''History & Literature of the Pacific Northwest: Marilynne Robinson, 1943''|work= Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, [[University of Washington]]}}</ref><ref> {{cite web|url=http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5955 |title=Marilynne Robinson (1947- ) |accessdate=2009-06-22 |last=Lister |first=Rachel |date=2006-10-21 |publisher=[[The Literary Encyclopedia]] }}</ref>

Robinson has written three highly acclaimed novels ''[[Housekeeping (novel)|Housekeeping]]'' (1980), ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'' (2004) and ''[[Home (novel)|Home]]'' (2008). ''Gilead'' has won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] (US) and ''Home'' won the [[Orange Prize for Fiction]] (UK). ''Gilead'' is a companion to ''Home'' focusing on the Boughton family during the time period.<ref name=PW>{{cite web|url= http://us.macmillan.com/home|title= ''Home'' by Marilynne Robinson}}</ref> <ref>Dave Itzkoff, [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/books/04arts-MARILYNNEROB_BRF.html "Marilynne Robinson Wins Orange Prize"], ''[[New York Times]]'', June 3, 2009.</ref>

She is also the author of non fiction works including ''Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution'' (1989) and ''The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought'' (1998). She has written articles, essays and reviews for ''[[Harper's Magazine|Harper’s]]'', ''[[The Paris Review]]'' and ''[[The New York Times Book Review]]''.

She has been writer-in-residence or visiting professor at many universities, including the [[University of Kent]], [[Amherst College|Amherst]], and the [[University of Massachusetts]]' [[MFA Program for Poets & Writers]]. In 2009, she held a Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at [[Yale University]], giving a series of talks entitled ''Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self''.

She currently teaches at the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]] and lives in [[Iowa City]].

==Awards==
*1980: ''[[Housekeeping (novel)|Housekeeping]]'' - [[Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award]] for best first novel; nominated for the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]
*2004: ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'' - 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; [[National Book Critics Circle Award#Fiction|National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction]]; 2005 [[Ambassador Book Award]]
*2008: ''[[Home (novel)|Home]]'' - 2009 [[Orange Prize for Fiction]]; finalist for the 2008 National Book Award.

==Works==
;Novels
* ''[[Housekeeping (novel)|Housekeeping]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'' (2004)
* ''[[Home (novel)|Home]]'' (2008)
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;Nonfiction
* ''Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution'' (1989)
* ''My Western Roots''(essay) (1993)
* ''The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought'' (1998)
* ''Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self'' (2010)

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.theparisreview.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5863 ''The Art of Fiction No. 198''], interview with Sarah Fay in [[The Paris Review]], 2008.
*[http://abc.com.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2400421.htm Radio Interview] with [[Ramona Koval]], [[The Book Show]], [[ABC Radio National]], (Australia) 31.10.08. Accessed 2010-05-31
*[http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/story/meeting-marilynne-robinson Article - Interview of Robinson by Emily Bobrow, 2008]
*[http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Hist%20n%20Lit/Part%20Five/Texts/Robinson%20Western%20Roots.html ''My Western Roots'' - Essay by Marilynne Robinson, 1993]. Northwest Schools of Literature at the Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest. [Link not working anymore.]
*[http://willowsprings.ewu.edu/interviewspdf/robinson.pdf Interview: ''A conversation with Marilynne Robinson''] April 24, 2006, by Sarah Flynn, Thomas King and Adam O'Connor Rodriguez at [[Eastern Washington University]]
*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week829/interview.html ''Interview with Marilynne Robinson,'' March 18, 2005, in Religion and Ethics Newsweekly]
* [http://solutions.synearth.net/2006/10/20 ''The God Delusion'' - article by Marilynne Robinson] reprinted from ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'', November, 2006
*[http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/december-robinson/ Critical essay - "Marilynne Robinson's Psalms and Prophecy," from ''Open Letters Monthly'']


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