She was the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for "her grace and intelligence in writing. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award (2016), the Orange Prize for Fiction (2009), the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2005, 2014), the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (1999), and the Louisville Gravemeyer Award in Religion (2006). Robinson received a Lila Acheson Wallace Reader's Digest Grant in 1991 and the prestigious Mildred. Her awards include the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction (2016), the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Richard C. Marilynne Robinson is the author of the modern classic Housekeeping (FSG, 1981) which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award from the Academy of American Arts and Letters, and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Robinson's nonfiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country, which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award. She is also the author of a non-fiction title, the. Marilynne Robinson is the author of four novels, including Gilead (2005), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Home (2008), winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and Lila (2014), winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinsons first novel, was acclaimed by critics and later filmed by Bill Forsyth.
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