| Full Name |
Marilynne Summers Robinson |
| Date of Birth |
26 November 1943 |
| Place of Birth |
Sandpoint, Idaho, USA |
| Date of Death |
- |
| Place of Death |
- |
| Citizenship / Country of Residence |
American |
| Education |
Brown University (BA), University of Washington (PhD) |
| Profession |
Novelist, essayist, academic |
| Years of Activity |
1980-present |
| Brief Information |
Marilynne Robinson is an American novelist and essayist. She is known for her novels Housekeeping, Gilead, Home, and Lila, which explore themes of faith, family, and American history. Robinson has received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Humanities Medal. |