Marilynne Robinson
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| birthdate = 1943
| birthplace = [[Sandpoint, Idaho|Sandpoint]], [[Idaho]], [[United States|U.S.]]
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| notableworks = ''[[Housekeeping (novel)|Housekeeping]]'' (1980)<br/>''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'' (2004)
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| awards = [[Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award]] (1981)<br/>[[National Book Critics Circle Award#Fiction|National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction]] (2004)<br/>[[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] (2005)
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'''Marilynne Robinson''' (born [[1943]])<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Hist%20n%20Lit/Part%20Five/Commentary/Robinson%20Comm.html|date= Undated|accessdate= 2008-04-13| title=
"History & Literature of the Pacific Northwest: Marilynne Robinson, 1943–"|work= Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, [[University of Washington]]}}</ref> is an [[United States|American]] [[author]]. Her 1980 novel ''[[Housekeeping (novel)|Housekeeping]]'' (see [[1980 in literature]]) won a [[Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award]] for best first novel and was nominated for the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]]. Her second novel, ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'' (see [[2004 in literature]]), was acclaimed by critics and received the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2004 [[National Book Critics Circle Award#Fiction|National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction]].
==Biography==
Robinson was born and grew up in [[Sandpoint, Idaho]], and did her undergraduate work at [[Pembroke College (Brown University)|Pembroke College]], the former [[women's college]] at [[Brown University]], receiving her [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] in 1966. She received her [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in English from the [[University of Washington]] in 1977.
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 Magazine|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 College|Amherst]], and the [[University of Massachusetts]]' [[MFA Program for Poets & Writers]]. She teaches at the [[Iowa Writers' Workshop]] and makes her home in Iowa City. Robinson took a sabbatical in fall 2007 to complete her third novel. Due to be published in September of 2008, ''Home'' is a companion piece to ''Gilead'', focusing on the Boughton family during the same time period that ''Gilead'' covers.<ref name=PW>{{cite web|url= http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6495098.html|date= 2007-10-29|accessdate= 2008-03-09| title= "Robinson Again to FSG" by Matthew Thornton|work= [[Publishers Weekly]]}}</ref>
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==Works==
;Novels
* ''[[Housekeeping (novel)|Housekeeping]]'' (1980)
* ''[[Gilead (novel)|Gilead]]'' (2004)
* ''Home'' (forthcoming [[September 16]], [[2008]])<ref name=PW/>
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* ''Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution'' (1989)
* ''The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought'' (1998)
==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/02/07/reviews/990207.07kimbalt.html ''New York Times Book Review'' of ''The Death of Adam'']
*[http://willowsprings.ewu.edu/interviewspdf/robinson.pdf ''A conversation with Marilynne Robinson,''] April 24,2006, by Sarah Flynn, Thomas King and Adam O'Connor Rodriguez at [[Eastern Washington University]]
*[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week829/interview.html ''INTERVIEW: Marilynne Robinson,'' [[March 18, 2005]], in Religion and Ethics Newsweekly]
* Marilynne Robinson [http://solutions.synearth.net/2006/10/20 ''The God Delusion''] [[Harper's Magazine]], November, 2006
*[http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/december-robinson/ "Marilynne Robinson's Psalms and Prophecy," from ''Open Letters Monthly'']
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