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Marilynne Robinson

1943 - Today

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Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. In 2016, Robinson was named in Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people. Robinson began teaching at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 1991 and retired in the spring of 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marilynne Robinson is the 4,242nd most popular writer (up from 4,908th in 2019), the 6,284th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,823rd in 2019) and the 478th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Marilynne Robinson ranks 4,242 out of 7,302Before her are Tevfik Fikret, Glen A. Larson, Cassandra Clare, Eno Raud, María de Zayas, and Raphael Holinshed. After her are James Krüss, Pyotr Vyazemsky, Radclyffe Hall, Natallia Arsiennieva, Annemarie Selinko, and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Marilynne Robinson ranks 403Before her are Gigi Meroni, Janet Akyüz Mattei, Steve Clark, Serge Lama, Ingrid Gulbin, and Niles Eldredge. After her are Mike Bloomfield, Masatoshi Shima, Catherine Cesarsky, Christl Haas, Leslie Uggams, and Sharon Gless.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Marilynne Robinson ranks 6,285 out of 20,380Before her are Gene Autry (1907), Ellsworth Kelly (1923), Bruce Kulick (1953), Dick Boushka (1934), Shawn Crahan (1969), and Rance Howard (1928). After her are Ed Wynn (1886), Mike Bloomfield (1943), Richard H. Truly (1937), Edmund Beecher Wilson (1856), Vivien Thomas (1910), and Hal B. Wallis (1898).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Marilynne Robinson ranks 478Before her are Francis Davis Millet (1848), Thomas Berger (1924), Ida B. Wells (1862), Tobias Wolff (1945), Robert Ettinger (1918), and Glen A. Larson (1937). After her are Anne Tyler (1941), Pauline Kael (1919), William Gaddis (1922), Margaret Weis (1948), Hal Clement (1922), and Philip Arthur Fisher (1907).