Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is a renowned American writer who is widely respected for her multiple award winning fictional and nonfiction works. Robinson was born in 1943 in Sandpoint, Idaho, where she also grew up. She is an alumni of Pembroke College, a former of Brown University and has a Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington. She has received a host of honorary accolades from numerous learning institutions in America over the years and has held teaching posts at many universities. Her novel series Gilead is widely recognized as her most successful work. Among her numerous awards Robinson has been the recipient of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 2012 National Humanities Medal. She made her literary breakthrough with the highly successful novel “Housekeeping” in 1980. Her literary prowess has continued to shine, with many other fictional and nonfictional works continuing to place her at the very top of the literature world. She delivers some of the most quotable works on complex societal issues, with luminaries such as Barrack Obama pointing to her literature as a source of inspiration for them.