Marilynne Robinson

Born on November 26, 1943, in Idaho, USA, Marilynne Summers Robinson is an American essayist and novelist. Robinson spent his childhood in Sandpoint of Idaho. Her sibling is David Summers, the art historian, who devoted his book name Vision, Reflection, and Desire to her in Western Painting.

She did her undergrad work at Pembroke College, which was formerly college for women at Brown University, getting her magna cum laude, the Latin degree and the Bachelor’s degree in 1966, where chosen to Phi Beta Kappa, the honour society. In 1977, she collected a Ph.D. degree from the Washington University in English.

Robinson has composed four profoundly acclaimed books name Housekeeping in 1980, Gilead in 2004, Home in 2008, and Lila in 2014. Housekeeping novel was a final contender in the category of fiction for the Pulitzer Prize (US) in 1982, Gilead was granted the Pulitzer in 2005, and Home got the Orange Prize for Fiction (UK) in 2009. She is likewise the author of non-fiction works including The Givenness of Things: Essays, Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution and The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought. She has composed essays, articles, and reviews for The NYRB and Harper's, The Paris Review.

 She has been visiting professor or author-in-residence at numerous colleges, including the University of Massachusetts Amherst in MFA Program for Poets and Writers, the University of Kent and Amherst. In 2009, she kept a Dwight H.

Terry Lectureship giving a progression of talks named “Absence of Mind.” On 19 April of 2010, she became an associate of the Arts and Sciences Academy in America. Robinson conveyed Oxford University's yearly Esmond Harmsworth Lecture at the Rothermere American Institute of college in American Arts and Letters in May of 2011.

She is presently the Professor F. Wendell Miller of Creative Writing and English at the Writers' Workshop in Iowa, where she lives. Robinson became the keynote speaker for the 75th commemoration festivity of Workshop in June of 2011. In 2012, she granted honoris causa, the Doctor of Literature degree at Brown University. On 18 February of 2013, Robinson was the speaker at the University of the South and was honoured with the Doctor of Literature degree, honoris causa.

The Oxford University, the College of the Holy Cross, Skidmore College, Notre Dame and Amherst College have additionally awarded Robinson privileged degrees. She became an associate of Mansfield College at Oxford University.

Robinson was brought up as a Presbyterian and later turned into a Congregationalist, adoring and now lecturing in Iowa City at the Congregational United Church of Christ. Her enthusiasm and her Congregationalism for the thoughts of John Calvin have been imperative in her books, involving Gilead, which focuses on the life and philosophical worries of an anecdotal Congregationalist minister.

She was declared to be among the final contestants for the Man Booker Prize on 24 January of 2013. President Barack Obama cited Robinson in his tribute to the Clementa C. Pinckney, the Reverend in Charleston of South Carolina of Emanuel AME Church on 26 June of 2015. 

In November of 2015, The New York Review of Books distributed a two-section discussion between Robinson and President Obama, covering subjects in American history and the part of the faith in the society. She has also earned many awards like National Humanities Medal, Park Kyong-ni Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize and much more.