1. Marilynne Summers Robinson was born on November 26,1943 and is an American novelist and essayist.
18 Facts About Marilynne Robinson
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Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.
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In 2016, Marilynne Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people.
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Marilynne Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016.
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Marilynne Robinson is best known for her novels Housekeeping and Gilead.
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Marilynne Robinson's novels are noted for their thematic depiction of faith and rural life.
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Marilynne Robinson's brother is the art historian David Summers, who dedicated his book Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting to her.
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Marilynne Robinson received her PhD in English from the University of Washington in 1977.
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Marilynne Robinson has written five highly acclaimed novels: Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack.
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Marilynne Robinson has written numerous articles, essays and reviews for Harper's, The Paris Review, and The New York Review of Books.
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In May 2011, Marilynne Robinson delivered the University of Oxford's annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters at the university's Rothermere American Institute.
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Marilynne Robinson was selected by the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University to deliver the 2018 Hulsean Lectures on Christian theology.
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Marilynne Robinson was the fourth woman selected for the series which was established in 1790.
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In 2023, Marilynne Robinson received the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus from the University of Washington, the highest honor bestowed upon a graduate of the university.
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Marilynne 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.
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In speaking about "an open heart," Obama said: 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.
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Marilynne Robinson was raised as a Presbyterian and later became a Congregationalist, worshipping and sometimes preaching at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Iowa City.
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Marilynne Robinson said they influenced her writing in many ways, since changes your sense of life, your sense of yourself.