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Marilynne Robinson

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American novelist and essayist (born 1943)
Marilynne Robinson
Robinson in 2012
Robinson in 2012
Born
Marilynne Summers

(1943-11-26)November 26, 1943 (age 82)
Occupation
  • Novelist
  • essayist
Education
Notable awards
Spouse
Fred Robinson
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(m. 1967; div. 1989)​
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Children2

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943)[2] is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including thePulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005,National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named inTime magazine's list of 100 most influential people.[3] Robinson began teaching at theIowa Writers' Workshop in 1991[4] and retired in the spring of 2016.[5]

Robinson is best known for her novelsHousekeeping (1980) andGilead (2004). Her novels are noted for their thematic depiction of faith and rural life.[6] The subjects of her essays span numerous topics, including therelationship between religion and science,American history,nuclear pollution,John Calvin, and contemporary American politics.

Early life and education

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Robinson was born Marilynne Summers on November 26, 1943, inSandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Ellen (Harris) and John J. Summers, a lumber company employee.[7][8][9] Her brother is the art historianDavid Summers, who dedicated his bookVision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting to her. She did her undergraduate work atPembroke College, the formerwomen's college atBrown University, receiving herBAmagna cum laude in 1966, and being elected toPhi Beta Kappa. At Brown, one of her teachers was the postmodern novelistJohn Hawkes.[10] She received herPhD in English from theUniversity of Washington in 1977.[11][12]

Writing career

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Robinson has written five highly acclaimed novels:Housekeeping (1980),Gilead (2004),Home (2008),Lila (2014), andJack (2020).Housekeeping was a finalist for the 1982Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (US),Gilead was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer, andHome received the 2009Orange Prize for Fiction (UK).Home andLila are companions toGilead and focus on the Boughton and Ames families during the same time period.[13][14]

Robinson is also the author of many nonfiction works, includingMother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989),The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998),Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010),When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays (2012),The Givenness of Things: Essays (2015), andWhat Are We Doing Here? (2018).Reading Genesis was released on March 12, 2024. Her novels and nonfiction works have been translated into 36 languages.

She has written numerous articles, essays and reviews forHarper's,The Paris Review, andThe New York Review of Books.[15][16][17]

Academic affiliations

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In addition to her tenure from 1991 to 2016 on the faculty of theUniversity of Iowa, where she retired as the F. Wendell Miller Professor of English and Creative Writing, Robinson has been writer-in-residence or visiting professor at many colleges and universities, includingAmherst College, and theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst'sMFA Program for Poets and Writers.[18]

In 2009, she held a Dwight H. Terry Lectureship atYale University, where she delivered a series of talks titledAbsence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self. In May 2011, Robinson delivered theUniversity of Oxford's annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters at the university'sRothermere American Institute. On April 19, 2010, she was elected a fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences.[19] Robinson was selected by the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University to deliver the 2018 Hulsean Lectures on Christian theology. She was the fourth woman selected for the series which was established in 1790.  She has been elected a fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford and of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2023, Robinson received the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus from the University of Washington, the highest honor bestowed upon a graduate of the university.[20]

The Yale Collection of American Literature at theBeinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired her papers.[21]

Honors and awards

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Robinson has received numerous literary, theological and academic honors, among them the 2006 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, the 2013Park Kyong-ni Prize, and the 2016Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2021, the Tulsa Library Trust presented her with the Helmerich Distinguished Author Award.  Robinson's alma mater, the University of Washington, honored her with their 2022 Alumni Summa Laude Dignata Award.

Robinson has received honorary degrees from over a dozen universities and colleges, starting with Oxford University in 2010 and Brown University in 2012, and followed most recently by the University of Iowa, Yale University, Boston College, Cambridge University, and the University of Portland.

Commendations

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The formerArchbishop of Canterbury,Rowan Williams, has described Robinson as "one of the world's most compelling English-speaking novelists", adding that "Robinson's is a voice we urgently need to attend to in both Church and society here [in the UK]."[22]

On June 26, 2015, PresidentBarack Obama quoted Robinson in his eulogy forClementa C. Pinckney ofEmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In speaking about "an open heart," Obama said:"[w]hat a friend of mine, the writer Marilynne Robinson, calls 'that reservoir of goodness, beyond, and of another kind, that we are able to do each other in the ordinary cause of things.'"[23] In November 2015,The New York Review of Books published a two-part conversation between Obama and Robinson, covering topics in American history and the role of faith in society.[24][25]

Personal life

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Robinson was raised as aPresbyterian and later became aCongregationalist, worshipping and sometimes preaching at theCongregational United Church of Christ in Iowa City.[26][27] Her Congregationalism and her interest in the ideas ofJohn Calvin have been important in many of her novels, includingGilead, which centers on the life and theological concerns of a fictional Congregationalist minister.[28] In an interview with theChurch Times in 2012, Robinson said: "I think, if people actually read Calvin, rather than readMax Weber, he would be rebranded. He is a very respectable thinker."[29]

In 1967 she married Fred Miller Robinson,[30] a writer and professor at theUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst. The Robinsons divorced in 1989.[31] The couple have two sons. In the late 1970s, she wroteHousekeeping in the evenings while they slept. Robinson said they influenced her writing in many ways, since"[Motherhood] changes your sense of life, your sense of yourself."[32]

Robinson divides her time between northern California and upstate New York.

Bibliography

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Novels

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Nonfiction

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Books

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Essays and reportage

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Awards

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Honorary degrees

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References

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  1. ^This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home. BRILL. 2015-09-25.ISBN 9789004302235.
  2. ^Robinson, Marilynne (2020).Gilead. London: Virago.ISBN 978-1-84408-148-6.
  3. ^100 Most Influential People Marilynne RobinsonArchived 2023-12-05 at theWayback MachineTime, April 2016
  4. ^"UI Writers' Workshop faculty member Marilynne Robinson win quarter-million-dollar award". February 4, 1998. Archived fromthe original on November 17, 2017. RetrievedMarch 29, 2016.
  5. ^"Robinson to retire from Iowa Writers' Workshop".Iowa Now. 2016-04-27. Retrieved2016-04-27.
  6. ^McCrum, Robert (April 2, 2005)."A love letter to lost America".The Guardian. RetrievedMarch 29, 2016.
  7. ^"Marilynne Robinson: Sandpoint Memories".NEA. 2010-04-06. Retrieved2019-04-02.
  8. ^Werlock, Abby H. P. (22 April 2015).Encyclopedia of the American Novel. Infobase Learning.ISBN 9781438140698.
  9. ^"Hill & Wood Funeral Service | Charlottesville, VA Funeral Home & Cremation".
  10. ^This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home. BRILL. 2015-09-25.ISBN 9789004302235.
  11. ^"History & Literature of the Pacific Northwest: Marilynne Robinson, 1943".Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest,University of Washington. n.d. Retrieved2008-04-13.
  12. ^Lister, Rachel (2006-10-21)."Marilynne Robinson (1947– )".The Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved2009-06-22.
  13. ^"Home by Marilynne Robinson". Us.macmillan.com. Archived fromthe original on 2010-07-22. Retrieved2015-10-29.
  14. ^Dave Itzkoff,"Marilynne Robinson Wins Orange Prize",The New York Times, June 3, 2009.
  15. ^Robinson, Marilynne (2016-03-01)."Save Our Public Universities".Harper's Magazine.ISSN 0017-789X. Retrieved2017-02-05.
  16. ^Fay, Interviewed by Sarah."Marilynne Robinson, The Art of Fiction No. 198".The Paris Review. Retrieved2017-02-05.
  17. ^"Marilynne Robinson".The New York Review of Books. Retrieved2017-02-05.
  18. ^Max, D. T. (2012-09-07)."D.F.W. Week: The Wonderfully Arrogant First Pitch Letter".The New Yorker.ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved2019-04-02.
  19. ^"American Academy of Arts & Sciences". Amacad.org. January 1999. Retrieved2015-10-29.
  20. ^"Marilynne Robinson ('77) Receives the UW's Highest Alumni Honor | Department of English | University of Washington".english.washington.edu. Retrieved2024-08-11.
  21. ^"Marilynne Robinson Papers | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library".beinecke.library.yale.edu/. 24 February 2013. Retrieved2024-08-29.
  22. ^Williams, Rowan, "Mighty plea for reasonableness",Church Times, 12 August 2012
  23. ^"Remarks by the President in Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney".whitehouse.gov. 2015-06-26. Retrieved2015-10-29 – viaNational Archives.
  24. ^Robinson, Marilynne; Obama, President Barack (November 5, 2015)."President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa".The New York Review of Books.62 (17). RetrievedAugust 21, 2016.
  25. ^Robinson, Marilynne; Obama, President Barack (November 19, 2015)."President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation—II".The New York Review of Books.62 (18). RetrievedAugust 21, 2016.
  26. ^"Marilynne Robinson interview: The faith behind the fiction",Reform, September 2010.
  27. ^"Marilynne Robinson",Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, September 18, 2009.
  28. ^"Marilynne Robinson",Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, March 18, 2005.
  29. ^Wroe, Martin, "A minister of the word",Church Times, 22 June 2012
  30. ^Sandra Hutchison (15 February 2015)."Marilynne Robinson".Sandra Hutchison. Retrieved2019-01-03.
  31. ^Fay, Interviewed by Sarah (2008)."Marilynne Robinson, The Art of Fiction No. 198".The Paris Review. Vol. Fall 2008, no. 186.ISSN 0031-2037. Retrieved2019-01-03.
  32. ^Brockes, Emma (2009-05-29)."A life in writing: Marilynne Robinson".The Guardian.ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved2019-01-04.
  33. ^"Five books for 2014".The Economist. November 21, 2013.
  34. ^"Jack".US Macmillan. RetrievedSeptember 15, 2020.[dead link]
  35. ^"Marilynne Robinson Introduced by Paul Elie".92 St Y.
  36. ^Marchese, David (2024-02-18)."Marilynne Robinson Considers Biden a Gift of God".The New York Times.
  37. ^"PEN/Hemingway Award Winners".The Hemingway Society. Retrieved7 March 2015.
  38. ^"1982 Finalists".The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved7 March 2015.
  39. ^"The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction".www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved2019-05-21.
  40. ^"2006- Marilynne Robinson". Grawemeyer.org. Archived fromthe original on 2014-04-04. Retrieved2015-10-29.
  41. ^"Simmons among nine honorary degree recipients". Brown University. 16 May 2012. Retrieved28 May 2014.
  42. ^President Obama to Award 2012 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities MedalWhitehouse.gov, retrieved 30 June 2013
  43. ^Julie Jackson (September 26, 2013)."Park Kyung-ni literary prize goes to Robinson".Korea Herald. RetrievedJuly 7, 2014.
  44. ^Alexandra Alter (March 12, 2015)."'Lila' Honored as Top Fiction by National Book Critics Circle".New York Times. RetrievedMarch 12, 2015.
  45. ^"Marilynne Robinson wins Library of Congress fiction prize".Associated Press. March 29, 2016. RetrievedMarch 11, 2025.
  46. ^Foundation, Dayton Literary Peace Prize."Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Marilynne Robinson, 2016 Recipient of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award".daytonliterarypeaceprize.org. Archived fromthe original on 2019-07-17. Retrieved2017-01-03.
  47. ^"Premio Autore Straniero - Marilynne Robinson".Il Premio Letterario Internazionale Mondello. Retrieved11 March 2025.
  48. ^"Seven to Receive Honorary Degrees at 2017 Duke Commencement | Duke Today".today.duke.edu. 2017-04-03. Retrieved2025-06-23.
  49. ^"Honorary Degree Recipients | University of Iowa Honorary Degree Program - The University of Iowa".honorary-degrees.sites.uiowa.edu. Retrieved2025-06-23.
  50. ^"Biographies of Yale's 2018 honorary degree recipients | Yale News".news.yale.edu. 2018-05-20. Retrieved2025-06-23.
  51. ^"Cambridge confers 2019 honorary degrees | University of Cambridge".www.cam.ac.uk. 2019-06-19. Retrieved2025-06-23.

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