Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson. She was born in Sandpoint, Idaho, in 1943. She has a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Washington. He has combined an extensive professional career in the world of teaching with his investigative and essayist facet –he has published numerous articles in Harper’s, The Paris Review and The New York Times Book Review–, in addition to becoming, with only three novels, in one of the most influential voices in American fiction in recent decades. Her debut feature, Home Life (Housekeeping, 1980), won the PEN / Hemingway Prize and was a Pulitzer finalist. Twenty-four years had to pass before the novel that definitively elevated Robinson saw the light: Gilead, the testimony of a Methodist pastor in a small town in Iowa, narrated in an epistolary key to his seven-year-old son, who was awarded, among others , with the 2005 Pulitzer Prize and the 2004 National Book Critic Circles Award. In 2008 he published En casa, whose action is contemporary with Gilead, and complements it, and which won the Orange Prize for the best fiction novel. This was followed by Lila, in 2014, and Jack, in 2020, all of them published on this same label.