Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Robinson (2012)

Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943 as Marilynne Summers in Sandpoint , Idaho ) is an American novelist and essayist.

Life

Robinson studied at Pembroke College, the former women's college of Brown University, and received his PhD in English from the University of Washington in 1977 .

She wrote four major novels, Housekeeping (1980), Gilead (2004), Home (2008) and '' Purple '' (2014), for which she has received several awards. She has also published a number of non-fiction books as well as essays and articles in magazines such as Harper's Magazine , The Paris Review and The New York Times Book Review .

Robinson has been visiting professor at various colleges such as the University of Kent , Amherst College , the University of Massachusetts and Yale University . In 2010 she was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Robinson taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1991 to 2016 ; she lives in Iowa City .

Her older brother David Summers works as an art historian.

Robinson's works are still largely unknown in Germany, but the German publication of Lila (2015), the third volume of the Gilead trilogy, represents a big step towards the author's discovery in the German-speaking world, according to literary reviews in newspapers and radio.

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

  • Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State and Nuclear Pollution . Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 1989.
  • The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought . Picador, New York 1998.
  • Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self . Terry Lectures. Yale UP, New Haven 2010.
  • When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays . Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2012 [ For my brother David Summers, first and best of my teachers ].
  • The Givenness of Things: Essays . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
  • What are we doing here? Essays . Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.

Awards

literature

  • Patrick O'Donnell et al. a. (Ed.): The Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Fiction. 2. Twentieth Century American Fiction . Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2011, pp. 804 f.
  • Hannes Bergthaller: Like a Ship to be Tossed: Emersonian Environmentalism and Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping". In: Fiona Becket, Terry Gifford (Eds.): Culture, creativity and environment: new environmentalist criticism . Rodopi, Amsterdam 2007, pp. 75-97.
  • Helga Beste: “What's that, crazy?”: On the function of crazy characters in John Kennedy Toole, Joseph Heller, Marilynne Robinson and Leslie Marmon Silko . WVT, Trier 2003. ( Dissertation . Heidelberg 2001)

Web links

Commons : Marilynne Robinson  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History & Literature of the Pacific Northwest: Marilynne Robinson, 1943 . In: Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington . Retrieved April 13, 2008 (undated).
  2. ^ Rachel Lister: Marilynne Robinson (1947-). In: The Literary Encyclopedia . October 21, 2006, accessed June 22, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter R. (PDF; 508 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved January 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 20, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Manuela Reichart: Marilynne Robinson: “Purple” - discovery of a powerful narrator. Deutschlandradio Kultur. (on-line)
  6. ↑ Nicole Henneberg: Marilynne Robinson: House without a stop: Huckleberry Finn's unruly sister. FAZ.NET. (on-line)
  7. ^ Johann Hinrich Claussen: Obama meets favorite author. sueddeutsche.de, November 10, 2015, accessed on November 10, 2015. The conversation was documented by the New York Review of Books in the editions of November 5 and 19, 2015: Part 1 , Part 2
personal data
SURNAME Robinson, Marilynne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Robinson, Marilynne Summers; Summers, Marilynne (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American novelist and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1943