I meant to leave you a reasonably candid testament to my be… - Marilynne Robinson

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I meant to leave you a reasonably candid testament to my better self, and it seems to me now that what you must see here is just an old man struggling with the difficulty of understanding what it is he's struggling with.

Marilynne Robinson

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Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. During her writing career Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, the 2012 National Humanities Medal, and the 2016 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction.

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Birth Name: Marilynne Summers

Alternative Names: Marilynne Summers Robinson • Marilynne S. Robinson

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