Marilynne Robinson
American novelist and essayist
Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist who won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Gilead. She also wrote Reading Genesis.
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American Born 1943 in Sandpoint, United States
About Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson was born on November 26, 1943, in Sandpoint, Idaho. She is best known for her novels Housekeeping, published in 1980, and Gilead, published in 2004. Her fiction has been noted for its portrayal of faith and rural life. She has also written essays on topics such as how religion relates to science, the history of the United States, nuclear pollution, John Calvin and politics today. Robinson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the National Humanities Medal in 2012 and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016. She taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1991 until she retired in spring 2016.