Roxana 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. 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. 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 of Michigan. She worked in the American painting department at Sotheby's and wrote about American art until she began to successfully publish short fiction in the 1980s. Equally skilled in both long and short form fiction, Robinson is the author of four novels, three-story collections and a biography. Her work has appeared in