![]() ![]() The other hand, traditional in the sense of adhering to traditional ReformedĬalvinist doctrines and sensibilities, and not treating them as vestiges of the Robinson was thus raised, on the one hand, in a tradition that hadĪlready become “modern” in a lot of ways, e.g., accepting modern BiblicalĬriticism, welcoming many of the changes of modern American life, includingĪdvances in social justice, tolerance, and the like. Her family were churchgoing, mainstream, liberal Of her community was the intensity of her childhood religiosity and Robinson felt the smallness and remoteness and vastness of the place, as wellĪs what she calls its “enormous silences,” what distinguished her from the rest More by an awareness that the whole of human history had occurred somewhere “chastened by an outsized landscape and extravagant weather, and chastened even In her first novel, Housekeeping (1980), sheĬalls Sand Point “Fingerbone,” and describes it as an unimpressive town, Is not the kind of place naturally conducive to the development of literary Panhandle, surrounded by vast mountains and lakes. ![]() Was born in 1943 in a remote small town, Sand Point, Idaho, in the northern The surface, but her intellectual and personal formation certainly is not. Robinson’s biography may seem conventional on Robinson is quite unlike almost all contemporary American fiction writers, and ![]()
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