MARILYNNE ROBINSON

'Marilynne Robinson' (born 1947) is an American author.
She was born and grew up in Sandpoint, Idaho, 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. in English 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 for Fiction. Her second novel, ''Gilead'' (2004), was acclaimed by critics and received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Robinson is also the author of ''Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution'' (1989) and ''The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought'' (1998). She has written articles and book reviews for ''Harper’s'', ''The Paris Review'', and ''The New York Times Book Review''.
She has been writer-in-residence or visiting professor at numerous universities, including the University of Kent, Amherst, and the University of Massachusetts' MFA Program for Poets & Writers. She teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is taking a sabbatical in fall 2007 to complete her third novel.

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Bibliography

★ ''Housekeeping'' (1980)

★ ''Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution'' (1989)

★ ''The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought'' (1998)

★ ''Gilead'' (2004)

External links

★ Reading guide to ''Housekeeping''

★ Poets & Writers article on ''Housekeeping''

★ ''New York Times Book Review'' of ''The Death of Adam''

★ ''Now, a Masterpiece'', a review of ''Gilead'', by Jeffrey Hart, from ''National Review'', March 28, 2005

★ ''New York Times Book Review'' of ''Gilead''

★ ''A conversation with Marilynne Robinson,'' April 24,2006, by Sarah Flynn, Thomas King and Adam O'Connor Rodriguez at Eastern Washington University

★ ''INTERVIEW: Marilynne Robinson,'' March 18, 2005, in Religion and Ethics Newsweekly