Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson is a highly respected American author, celebrated for her award-winning fictional and nonfictional works. Born in 1943 in Sandpoint, Idaho, Robinson grew up in this small town and went on to attend Pembroke College, a former institution of Brown University. She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Washington. Over the years, she has received numerous honorary accolades from various learning institutions across the United States and has held teaching positions at several universities. Robinson is perhaps best known for her series of novels called Gilead, which is widely regarded as her most successful work.

Throughout her career, Marilynne Robinson has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016. In the same year, she was featured in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in 2016. Her novels, such as "Housekeeping" (1980) and "Gilead" (2004), are renowned for their thematic exploration of rural life and faith. Additionally, Robinson has written four books of nonfiction, covering a wide range of topics including the relationship between religion and science, US history, nuclear pollution, John Calvin, and contemporary American politics.