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Roxana Robinson (born November 30, 1946) is an American novelist and biographer whose fiction explores the complexity of familial bonds and fault lines. She is best known for her 2008 novel, ''Cost'', which was named one of the Five Best Novels of the Year〔http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/features/2008/holiday-guide/gifts/10-best-books-of-the-year/gallery.html〕 by ''The Washington Post.'' She is also the author of ''Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life'', and has written widely on American art and issues pertaining to ecology and the environment. == Life and work == Robinson was born in Pine Mountain, Kentucky, and raised in New Hope, Pennsylvania, the child of educators and the great-great-granddaughter of social reformer Henry Ward Beecher. She graduated from Buckingham Friends School, in Lahaska, and from The Shipley School, in Bryn Mawr. She studied writing at Bennington College with Bernard Malamud, and received a B.A. degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan. She worked in the American painting department at Sotheby's and wrote about American art until she began to successfully publish short fiction in the 1980s. Equally skilled in both long and short form fiction, Robinson is the author of four novels, three story collections and a biography. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic,'' and ''Best American Short Stories,'' and been widely anthologized and broadcast on National Public Radio. Four of her works have been chosen as Notable Books of the Year by ''The New York Times'', and ''Cost'' won the Maine Fiction Award and was long-listed for the Dublin Impac Prize for Fiction. She was named a Literary Lion by the New York Public Library, and currently serves on the board of PEN American Center and the Authors Guild. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony, and the Guggenheim Foundation.〔http://www.gf.org/fellows/12357-roxana-robinson〕 Robinson has taught at Wesleyan University, the University of Houston and at the New School. Since 1997, she has taught at the Wesleyan Writers’ Conference, and is currently teaching in the Hunter College MFA Program. Robinson is also a biographer and scholar of nineteenth, and early twentieth-century American art. Her articles have appeared in ''Arts, ARTnews'', and ''Art & Antiques'', as well as in exhibition catalogues for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Katonah Museum of Art and others. Her biography of ''Georgia O'Keeffe'' was deemed by Calvin Tomkins, of ''The New Yorker'', "without question the best book written about O'Keeffe,” and named a ''New York Times'' Notable Book. Robinson lectures frequently on Georgia O'Keeffe, and appeared in the BBC documentary on the artist. She reviews books for ''The New York Times'' and ''The Washington Post'' and her essays have appeared in ''The New York Times, Harper's, Vogue, Real Simple'' and ''More''. She has also written about travel for'' The New York Times, Travel and Leisure'' and elsewhere. Robinson is passionate about environmental concerns, explored in her novel ''Sweetwater'', and has published numerous op-eds in the'' Boston Globe, International Herald Tribune,'' and the ''Philadelphia Inquirer.'' She has also been a guest blogger for the National Resource Defense Council. She also writes about gardening for publications such as ''House and Garden, Horticulture,'' and'' Fine Gardening.'' Her garden is listed in the Garden Conservancy Open Days, and has been written about in'' The New York Times, House and Garden,'' ''Traditional Homes, The Atlantic,'' and ''Gardens Illustrated.'' She serves on the council of the Maine Coast Heritage Trust, which promotes the conservation of natural places statewide. She lives in New York, Maine and Connecticut with her husband. Her daughter is a painter whose work appeared on both the hardcover and paperback editions of ''Cost''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roxana Barry Robinson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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