Roxana robinson biography of barack obama

American novelist and biographer (born 1946)

Roxana Robinson (née Barry; born 30 November 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^[2] 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 Stuyvesant Barry and Alice Scoville.

Roxana robinson biography of barack obama

She is also 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