![]() ![]() Much of the Ames family legacy traces back to John’s grandfather’s involvement in the antislavery abolitionist movement in the years before and during the American Civil War. ![]() As of 2021, Marilynne Robinson still lives in Iowa City, Iowa. She married Fred Miller Robinson in 1967 and they had two sons, James and Joseph, before divorcing in 1989. Religion, theology, and spirituality are recurrent themes in her fiction and essays. Raised Presbyterian, she later became a Congregationalist and has sometimes preached at the historic United Church of Christ congregation she attends. Robinson taught at the Iowa Writers Workshop from 1991 until 2016. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Gilead in 2005, as well as the National Humanities Medal in 2012 and the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction in 2016. She has also published several essay collections, including When I Was a Child I Read Books (2012) and The Givenness of Things (2015). Robinson’s first novel, Housekeeping, was a Pulitzer finalist in 1982. She later earned her PhD in English from the University of Washington in 1977. Novelist and essayist Marilynne Robinson grew up in Idaho and graduated from Brown University’s former women’s college, Pembroke College, in 1966. ![]()
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