Marilynne Robinson
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About
An American novelist and essayist, she is known for such works as Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home (all published between 1980 and 2008). She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005.
Before Fame
She studied at Pembroke College, Brown University, and the University of Washington.
Trivia
She received the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Family Life
She was born Marilynne Summers in Sandpoint, Idaho. She was raised in a Presbyterian family, and she later joined the Congregationalist church.
Associated With
She received the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, an honor named after Ernest Hemingway.
