Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson was born in 1943 in Sandpoint, Idaho, a small town near the kind of glacial lake that would become central to her fiction. She studied at Brown University and earned a PhD in English from the University of Washington. Housekeeping, published in 1980, was her first novel and received immediate critical acclaim, winning the PEN/Hemingway Award. She then turned to nonfiction for over two decades before returning to fiction with Gilead in 2004. This author hub collects 2 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Housekeeping.