Mary Robison





Mary Robison

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born
January 14, 1949 in Washington, D.C., The United States

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Mary Robison is an American short story writer and novelist. She has published four collections of stories, and four novels, including her 2001 novel Why Did I Ever, winner of the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction. Her most recent novel, released in 2009, is One D.O.A., One on the Way. She has been categorized as a founding "minimalist" writer along with authors such as Amy Hempel, Frederick Barthelme, and Raymond Carver. In 2009, she won the Rea Award for the Short Story.


Average rating: 3.86 · 976 ratings · 182 reviews · 10 distinct works
Why Did I Ever
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 396 ratings3 editions
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One D.O.A., One on the Way
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 196 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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Tell Me 30 Stories
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Amateurs Guide to Night
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1983 — 2 editions
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Oh! (Nonpareil Book, 50.)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings2 editions
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Subtraction
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1991
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Believe Them: Stories
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4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions
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Days: Stories
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008
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“Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan.”
Mary Robison, Why Did I Ever

“You know, up until later on today, I never really knew how to drink.”
Mary Robison, One D.O.A., One on the Way

“He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing”
Mary Robison

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