Marilynne Robinson
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Marilynne Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American author.
She was born to John J. and Ellen (Harris) Summers in Sandpoint, Idaho. Her family lived in several small Northwest towns during her childhood. She graduated from Coeur d'Alene High School in 1962 and did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her B.A. in 1966. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1977.
Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won a PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Her second novel, Gilead (2004), was acclaimed by critics, and garnered the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award.
She has also written articles and book reviews for Harper’s, the Paris Review, and The New York Times Book Review, as well as two works of non-fiction. Harper's highlighted: "In Defense of Religion: Marilynne Robinson on Richard Dawkins's Hysterical Scientism" for her Nov. 2006 review of The God Delusion.
She has been writer-in-residence or visiting professor at numerous universities, including the University of Kent, Amherst College, and the University of Massachusetts' MFA Program for Poets & Writers. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.
[edit] Bibliography
- Housekeeping (1980)
- Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989)
- The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998)
- Gilead: A Novel (2004), 256 pp Picador, Reprint ed. (2006) ISBN 0-312-42440-X
[edit] References
- Keillor, Garrison. "Sunday, 26 November, 2006". Writer's Almanac, November 26, 2006.
- Sullivan, Shauna. "Marilynne Robinson — 1943". Emmett High School, Emmett, Idaho. (Retrieved November 26, 2006).
[edit] External links
- Reading guide to Housekeeping [1]
- Poets & Writers article on Housekeeping [2]
- New York Times book review of The Death of Adam [3]
- Jeffrey Hart, Now, a Masterpiece, Book review of Gilead, from the March 28, 2005 issue of National Review, now on NRO
- Marilynne Robinson The God Delusion - Hysterical Scientism: The ecstasy of Richard Dawkins Harper's Magazine, November, 2006
- Earl Doherty review of article Harper's Folly, November 26, 2006
- Religion and Ethics Interview (PBS) [4], March 18, 2005
- New Yorker Interview[5], 2004
- LA Weekly Interview,[6] 2005
