Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. 

Robinson has won many honors for her writing. Her novel Gilead, for example, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. In 2012, President Obama gave her the National Humanities Medal.

Books
 Housekeeping (1980)
 Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989)
 The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998)  
 Gilead (2004) 
 Home (2008)
 Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010)
 When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012) 
 Lila (2014) 
 The Givenness of Things: Essays (2015)
 What Are We Doing Here?: Essays (2018)
 Jack (2020) 

Awards
1982: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel for Housekeeping
1982: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlist for Housekeeping 
1989: National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlist for Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
1999: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for The Death of Adam
2004: National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Gilead
2005: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Gilead
2005: Ambassador Book Award for Gilead
2006: University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
2008: National Book Award finalist for Home
2008: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction for Home
2009: Orange Prize for Fiction for Home
2011: Man Booker International Prize nominee
2012: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Brown University
2012: National Humanities Medal for "grace and intelligence in writing"
2013: Man Booker International Prize nominee
2013: Park Kyong-ni Prize
2014: National Book Critics Circle Award for Lila
2014: National Book Award finalist for Lila
2015: Man Booker Prize longlist for Lila
2016: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction and Dayton Literary Peace Prize

References

Category:1943 births
Category:Living people
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:American essayists