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Marilynne Robinson

(b.1944)

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the bestselling novels Home, Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Housekeeping, and two books of nonfiction, Mother Country and The Death of Adam. She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Awards: NBCC (2014), Women's Prize (2009), LA Times (2008), Pulitzer (2005) see all

Genres: Literary Fiction

Series

Gilead
   1. Gilead (2004)
   2. Home (2008)
   3. Lila (2014)
   4. Jack (2020)

Novels

Housekeeping (1981)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Marilynne Robinson

The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 (2016)
(Best American Nonrequired Reading)
edited by
Rachel Kushner

By the Book (2014)
Writers On Literature and the Literary Life
edited by
Pamela Paul

The Future Dictionary of America (2004)
edited by
Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer, Eli Horowitz and Nicole Krauss

Awards

	2014 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : Lila
	2009 Women's Prize For Fiction : Home
	2008 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction : Home
	2005 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction : Gilead
	2004 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction : Gilead
	1982 PEN/Hemingway Award : Housekeeping

Award nominations

	2016 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Lila
	2015 Booker Prize (longlist) : Lila
	2014 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Lila
	2010 Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : Home
	2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (nominee) : Home
	2008 National Book Award for Fiction (shortlist) : Home
	2005 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : Gilead
	2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Gilead
	1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (nominee) : Housekeeping
	1982 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : Housekeeping

Marilynne Robinson recommends

The Unsettled (2023)
Ayana Mathis
"Shelter without the grace of welcome is exposure to the worst coldness of the world. Loyalty and the offer of comfort satisfy needs we feel in our bones. In The Unsettled, Ayana Mathis brings these extremes of experience intensely to life. This is a fine, powerful book."

Foregone (2021)
Russell Banks
"Foregone is a subtle meditation on a life composed of half-forgotten impulses and their endless consequences, misapprehensions of others that are accepted and exploited almost passively, a minor heroism that is only enhanced by demurral. In the rages of a sick old man profound questions arise--what is a life? A self? And what is lost when truth destroys the fabrications that sustain other lives?"

Aerialists (2018)
Mark Mayer
"Mayer's stories are singular, as intimate as dreaming."

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