Marilynne
- a variation of Marilyn.
Example Sentences
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In Scripture, Gilead is a place of refuge; so is Marilynne Robinson’s rural 1950s town.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Marilynne Mason, a 78-year-old arts writer in Denver, has been using Microsoft’s Copilot to research a book she’s writing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
Kent Haruf’s novels are the exemplar of the form, but the sensibility runs through books by Thomas McGuane, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Heller, Ivan Doig and more.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
The result is a story of spiritual crises with a narrative range more expansive than Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead novels, which can sometimes feel liturgical in their arcane ruminations.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 4, 2021
Politics with a lowercase p is often at work, but with a capital P almost never; and religion, one might say, is largely the preserve of Marilynne Robinson.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
