What is Marilynne Robinson?
{{Infobox writer | name = Marilynne Robinson | image = Marilynne Robinson (cropped2).jpg | caption = Robinson in 2012 | birth_name = Marilynne Summers | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|11|26}} | birth_place = [[Sandpoint, Idaho]], US | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist, essayist | alma_mater = {{unbulleted list | Pembroke College, Brown University | [[University of Washington]]}} | spouse = {{marriage|Fred Miller Robinson|1967|1989|reason=div}} | children = 2 | awards = {{unbulleted list | Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (1981) | [[National Book Critics Circle Award#Fiction|National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction]] (2004, 2014) | [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] (2005) | Orange Prize for Fiction (2009) | [[National Humanities Medal]] (2012) | Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2016)}} }} '''Marilynne Summers Robinson''' (born November 26, 1943) is an [[Americans|American]] [[novelist]] and [[essayist]]. Robinson has won many honors for her writing. Her novel ''Gilead'', for example, has won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] and the [[National Book Critics Circle Award|National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2023|title=The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/marilynne-robinson|access-date=February 28, 2023|website=The Pulitzer Prizes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=2004|url=https://www.bookcritics.org/past-awards/2004/|access-date=2023-02-28|website=National Book Critics Circle|language=en-US}}</ref> In 2012, [[Barack Obama|President Obama]] gave her the [[National Humanities Medal]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Marilynne Robinson|url=https://www.neh.gov/about/awards/national-humanities-medals/marilynne-robinson|access-date=2023-02-28|website=The National Endowment for the Humanities|language=en}}</ref> ==Books== * ''Housekeeping'' (1980) * ''Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution'' (1989) * ''The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought'' (1998) * ''Gilead'' (2004) * ''Home'' (