Roxana Robinson

Roxana Robinson
Robinson at the 2015 National Book Festival
BornRoxana Barry
(1946-11-30) 30 November 1946
Pine Mountain, Kentucky
EducationBuckingham Friends School
The Shipley School
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Genre
  • Novelist
  • biographer
SpouseHamilton Robinson

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 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.