Marilynne Robinson

Robinson was born Marilynne Summers on November 26, 1943, in Sandpoint, Idaho, the daughter of Ellen (Harris) and John J. Summers, a lumber company employee.{{Cite web|url=https://www.arts.gov/art-works/2010/marilynne-robinson-sandpoint-memories|title=Marilynne Robinson: Sandpoint Memories|date=2010-04-06|website=NEA|language=en|access-date=2019-04-02}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U59bAgAAQBAJ&q=%22toJohn+J.Summers,+a+lumbercompany+employee,+and+Ellen+Harris+Summers%22&pg=PT3279|title=Encyclopedia of the American Novel|isbn=9781438140698|last1=Werlock|first1=Abby H. P.|date=22 April 2015|publisher=Infobase Learning }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hillandwood.com/obituary/1887647|title = Hill & Wood Funeral Service | Charlottesville, VA Funeral Home & Cremation}} Her brother is the art historian David Summers, who dedicated his book Vision, Reflection, and Desire in Western Painting to her. She did her undergraduate work at Pembroke College, the former women's college at Brown University, receiving her BA magna cum laude in 1966, and being elected to Phi Beta Kappa. At Brown, one of her teachers was the postmodern novelist John Hawkes.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKm8CgAAQBAJ&q=brown+university&pg=PA19|title=This Life, This World: New Essays on Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping, Gilead, and Home|date=2015-09-25|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004302235|language=en}} She received her PhD in English from the University of Washington in 1977.{{cite web|url= http://www.washington.edu/uwired/outreach/cspn/Website/Classroom%20Materials/Reading%20the%20Region/Northwest%20Schools%20of%20Literature/Commentary/9.html|date= n.d.|access-date= 2008-04-13| title= History & Literature of the Pacific Northwest: Marilynne Robinson, 1943|work= Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest, University of Washington}}{{cite web|url=http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5955 |title=Marilynne Robinson (1947– ) |access-date=2009-06-22 |last=Lister |first=Rachel |date=2006-10-21 |publisher=The Literary Encyclopedia }}

Robinson has written five highly acclaimed novels: Housekeeping (1980), Gilead (2004), Home (2008), Lila (2014), and Jack (2020). Housekeeping was a finalist for the 1982 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (US), Gilead was awarded the 2005 Pulitzer, and Home received the 2009 Orange Prize for Fiction (UK). Home and Lila are companions to Gilead and focus on the Boughton and Ames families during the same time period.{{cite web|url= http://us.macmillan.com/home|title= Home by Marilynne Robinson|publisher= Us.macmillan.com|access-date= 2015-10-29|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100722063909/http://us.macmillan.com/home|archive-date= 2010-07-22|url-status= dead}}Dave Itzkoff, [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/books/04arts-MARILYNNEROB_BRF.html "Marilynne Robinson Wins Orange Prize"], The New York Times, June 3, 2009.

Robinson is also the author of many nonfiction works, including Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution (1989), The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought (1998), Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self (2010), When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays (2012), The Givenness of Things: Essays (2015), and What Are We Doing Here? (2018). Reading Genesis was released on March 12, 2024. Her novels and nonfiction works have been translated into 36 languages.

She has written numerous articles, essays and reviews for Harper's, The Paris Review, and The New York Review of Books.{{Cite news|url=http://harpers.org/archive/2016/03/save-our-public-universities/|title=Save Our Public Universities|last=Robinson|first=Marilynne|date=2016-03-01|newspaper=Harper's Magazine|access-date=2017-02-05|issn=0017-789X}}{{Cite news|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5863/marilynne-robinson-the-art-of-fiction-no-198-marilynne-robinson|title=Marilynne Robinson, The Art of Fiction No. 198|last=Fay|first=Interviewed by Sarah|newspaper=The Paris Review|access-date=2017-02-05|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.nybooks.com/contributors/marilynne-robinson/|title=Marilynne Robinson|website=The New York Review of Books|access-date=2017-02-05}}

In addition to her tenure from 1991 to 2016 on the faculty of the University of Iowa, where she retired as the F. Wendell Miller Professor of English and Creative Writing, Robinson has been writer-in-residence or visiting professor at many colleges and universities, including Amherst College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst's MFA Program for Poets and Writers.{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/d-f-w-week-the-wonderfully-arrogant-first-pitch-letter|title=D.F.W. Week: The Wonderfully Arrogant First Pitch Letter|last=Max|first=D. T.|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2012-09-07|access-date=2019-04-02|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}

In 2009, she held a Dwight H. Terry Lectureship at Yale University, where she delivered a series of talks titled Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self. In May 2011, Robinson delivered the University of Oxford's annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters at the university's Rothermere American Institute. On April 19, 2010, she was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web |date=January 1999 |title=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |url=http://www.amacad.org/news/pressReleaseContent.aspx?i=113 |access-date=2015-10-29 |publisher=Amacad.org}} Robinson was selected by the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University to deliver the 2018 Hulsean Lectures on Christian theology. She was the fourth woman selected for the series which was established in 1790.  She has been elected a fellow of Mansfield College, Oxford and of Clare Hall, Cambridge. In 2023, Robinson received the Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus from the University of Washington, the highest honor bestowed upon a graduate of the university.{{Cite web |title=Marilynne Robinson ('77) Receives the UW’s Highest Alumni Honor {{!}} Department of English {{!}} University of Washington |url=https://english.washington.edu/news/2023/06/05/marilynne-robinson-77-receives-uws-highest-alumni-honor |access-date=2024-08-11 |website=english.washington.edu}}

The Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of writer and essayist Marilynne Robinson.{{Cite web |title=Marilynne Robinson Papers {{!}} Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library |url=https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/article/marilynne-robinson-papers |access-date=2024-08-29 |website=beinecke.library.yale.edu/}}

Robinson has received numerous literary, theological and academic honors, among them the 2006 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion, the 2013 Park Kyong-ni Prize, and the 2016 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. In 2021, the Tulsa Library Trust presented her with the Helmerich Distinguished Author Award.  Robinson's alma mater, the University of Washington, honored her with their 2022 Alumni Summa Laude Dignata Award.

Robinson has received honorary degrees from over a dozen universities and colleges, starting with Oxford University in 2010 and Brown University in 2012, and followed most recently by the University of Iowa, Yale University, Boston College, Cambridge University, and the University of Portland.

The former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, has described Robinson as "one of the world's most compelling English-speaking novelists", adding that "Robinson's is a voice we urgently need to attend to in both Church and society here [in the UK]."Williams, Rowan, "[http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/10-august/reviews/book-reviews/mighty-plea-for-reasonableness Mighty plea for reasonableness]", Church Times, 12 August 2012

On June 26, 2015, President Barack Obama quoted Robinson in his eulogy for Clementa C. Pinckney of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. In speaking about "an open heart," Obama said: {{nowrap|"[w]hat}} a friend of mine, the writer Marilynne Robinson, calls 'that reservoir of goodness, beyond, and of another kind, that we are able to do each other in the ordinary cause of things.'"{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2015/06/26/remarks-president-eulogy-honorable-reverend-clementa-pinckney |title=Remarks by the President in Eulogy for the Honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney |date=2015-06-26 |via=National Archives |work=whitehouse.gov |access-date=2015-10-29}} In November 2015, The New York Review of Books published a two-part conversation between Obama and Robinson, covering topics in American history and the role of faith in society.{{cite journal

| url = http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/11/05/president-obama-marilynne-robinson-conversation/| title = President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation in Iowa| journal = The New York Review of Books| date = November 5, 2015| access-date = August 21, 2016| last1 = Robinson| first1 = Marilynne| last2 = Obama| first2 = President Barack| volume = 62| issue = 17}}{{cite journal

| url = http://www2.nybooks.com/articles/s3/2015/nov/19/president-obama-marilynne-robinson-conversation-2.html| title = President Obama & Marilynne Robinson: A Conversation—II| journal = The New York Review of Books| date = November 19, 2015| access-date = August 21, 2016| last1 = Robinson| first1 = Marilynne| last2 = Obama| first2 = President Barack| volume = 62| issue = 18}}

Robinson was raised as a Presbyterian and later became a Congregationalist, worshipping and sometimes preaching at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Iowa City.[https://www.reform-magazine.co.uk/2016/05/marilynne-robinson-interview/ "Marilynne Robinson interview: The faith behind the fiction"], Reform, September 2010.[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2009/09/18/september-18-2009-marilynne-robinson/4244/ "Marilynne Robinson"], Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, September 18, 2009. Her Congregationalism and her interest in the ideas of John Calvin have been important in many of her novels, including Gilead, which centers on the life and theological concerns of a fictional Congregationalist minister.[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2005/03/18/march-18-2005-interview-marilynne-robinson/4226/ "Marilynne Robinson"], Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, March 18, 2005. In an interview with the Church Times in 2012, Robinson said: "I think, if people actually read Calvin, rather than read Max Weber, he would be rebranded. He is a very respectable thinker."Wroe, Martin, "[http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/22-june/features/a-minister-of-the-word A minister of the word]", Church Times, 22 June 2012

In 1967 she married Fred Miller Robinson,{{Cite web|url=http://www.sandiego.edu/cas/film/faculty-and-staff/biography.php?profile_id=74|title=Biography - Fred Miller Robinson, PhD - College of Arts and Sciences - University of San Diego|website=www.sandiego.edu|access-date=2019-01-03}}{{Cite web|url=https://sheerhubris.com/tag/marilynne-robinson/|title=Marilynne Robinson|last=Sandra Hutchison|website=Sandra Hutchison|date=15 February 2015 |language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-03}} a writer and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Robinsons divorced in 1989.{{Cite news|url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5863/marilynne-robinson-the-art-of-fiction-no-198-marilynne-robinson|title=Marilynne Robinson, The Art of Fiction No. 198|last=Fay|first=Interviewed by Sarah|date=2008|work=The Paris Review|access-date=2019-01-03|issue=186|volume=Fall 2008|language=en|issn=0031-2037}} The couple have two sons. In the late 1970s, she wrote Housekeeping in the evenings while they slept. Robinson said they influenced her writing in many ways, since {{nowrap|"[Motherhood]}} changes your sense of life, your sense of yourself."{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/may/30/marilynne-robinson|title=A life in writing: Marilynne Robinson|last=Brockes|first=Emma|date=2009-05-29|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-01-04|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}

Robinson divides her time between northern California and upstate New York.

{{Incomplete list|date=February 2015}}

• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=Housekeeping |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=1980 |isbn=9780374525187 |author-mask=2}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=Gilead |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2004 |isbn=9780312424404 |author-mask=2}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=Home |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2008 |isbn=9780009732997 |author-mask=2}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=Lila |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2014 |isbn=9781844088812 |author-mask=2}}{{cite web |date=November 21, 2013 |title=Five books for 2014 |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/theworldin2014/2013/11/cultural-forecasts |website=The Economist}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=Jack |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2020 |isbn=9780374279301 |author-mask=2}}{{cite web |title=Jack |url=https://us.macmillan.com/jack/marilynnerobinson/9780374279301 |access-date=September 15, 2020 |website=US Macmillan}}

• [https://www.theparisreview.org/fiction/2766/connie-bronson-marilynne-robinson "Connie Bronson"] in The Paris Review, 1986
• [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/13/kansas/ "Kansas"] in The New Yorker on September 6, 2004 (Extract from Gilead)
• [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/jack-and-della/ "Jack and Della"] in The New Yorker on July 13, 2020 (Extract from Jack)

• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=1989 |isbn=9780374526597 |author-mask=2}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought |publisher=Picador |year=1998 |isbn=9780312425326 |author-mask=2}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2010 |isbn=9780300171471 |author-mask=2}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=When I Was a Child I Read Books |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2012 |isbn=9780374298784 |author-mask=2}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=The Givenness of Things: Essays |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2015 |isbn=9781250097316 |author-mask=2}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=What Are We Doing Here?: Essays |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2018 |isbn=9780374282219 |author-mask=2}}{{cite web |title=Marilynne Robinson Introduced by Paul Elie |url=https://www.92y.org/event/marilynne-robinson |website=92 St Y}}
• {{cite book |last=Robinson |first= |title=Reading Genesis |publisher=Abacus |year=2024 |isbn=9780349018744 |author-mask=2}}{{cite web |last=Marchese |first=David |date=2024-02-18 |title=Marilynne Robinson Considers Biden a Gift of God |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/18/magazine/marilynne-robinson-interview.html |website=The New York Times}}

• "[https://harpers.org/archive/1985/02/bad-news-for-britain/ Bad News From Britain: Dangerous Chemicals, Awful Silence]", Harper's Magazine, February, 1985
• "[https://harpers.org/archive/2008/05/a-great-amnesia/ A Great Amnesia]", Harper's Magazine, May 2008
• {{cite journal |date=Winter 2011 |title=On 'Beauty' |journal=Tin House |volume=50}}
• "On Edgar Allan Poe", The New York Review of Books, vol. LXII, no. 2 (February 5, 2015), pp. 4, 6.
• {{cite journal |date=November 2015 |title=Humanism, Science, and the Radical Expansion of the Possible |journal=The Nation|url=https://www.thenation.com/article/humanism-science-and-the-radical-expansion-of-the-possible/}}
• {{cite journal |date=Fall 2015 |title=Fear |journal=New York Review of Books |volume=62 |number=14 |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/09/24/marilynne-robinson-fear/}}
• "[https://harpers.org/archive/2016/03/save-our-public-universities/ Save Our Public Universities]", Harper's Magazine, March, 2016
• {{cite journal |date=Summer 2019 |title=Which Way to the City on a Hill?|journal=New York Review of Books |volume=66 |number=12 |url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/07/18/which-way-city-hill/}}
• "[https://harpers.org/archive/2019/06/is-poverty-necessary-marilynne-robinson Is Poverty Necessary?]", Harper's Magazine, June, 2019
• {{cite journal |date=June 11, 2020 |title=What Kind of Country Do We Want?|journal=New York Review of Books |volume=67 |number=10 |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/06/11/what-kind-of-country-do-we-want/}}
• {{cite journal |date=October 9, 2020 |title=What Does It Mean to Love a Country? (online: Don't Give Up on America)|journal=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/america-patriotism.html}}
• [https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/06/17/marilynne-robinson-gun-violence-plague-evolving-dangerously/ The Gun-violence Plague is Evolving, Dangerously], The Washington Post, June 17, 2022
• [https://harpers.org/archive/2022/08/marilynne-robinson-one-manner-of-law-the-religious-origins-of-american-liberalism/ One Manner of Law], Harper's Magazine, July, 2022
• [https://www.nybooks.com/online/2022/12/25/glories-stream-from-heaven-afar-marilynne-robinson/ Glories Stream from Heaven Afar], New York Review of Books, December 25, 2022
• [https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/11/02/dismantling-iowa-marilynne-robinson/ Dismantling Iowa], New York Review of Books, November 2, 2023
• "[https://harpers.org/archive/2024/02/and-it-was-so-marilynne-robinson/ And It Was So: Creation in Genesis]", Harper's Magazine, February, 2024
• "[https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/06/26/notes-from-an-occupation-marilynne-robinson/ Notes from An Occupation]," New York Review of Books, June 26, 2025

• "[https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/5863/the-art-of-fiction-no-198-marilynne-robinson Marilynne Robinson: The Art of Fiction, No. 198]", The Paris Review, Fall 2008.
• A September 2015 interview with Barack Obama in Des Moines, Iowa, recorded by the New York Review of Books and published in the October issues of the magazine in two parts
• "[https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marilynne-robinson-on-biblical-beauty-human-evil-and/id1548604447?i=1000648054080 Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Beauty, Human Evil and the Idea of Israel]", The Ezra Klein Show, March 5, 2024
• "[https://radioopensource.org/american-believer/ American Believer]" on Open Source with Christopher Lydon, August 1, 2024
• "[https://radioopensource.org/occupied-america/ Occupied America]" on Open Source with Christopher Lydon, July 10, 2025

• 1982: PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel for Housekeeping{{cite web|title=PEN/Hemingway Award Winners|url=http://hemingwaysociety.org/?page_id=751|website=The Hemingway Society|access-date=7 March 2015}}
• 1982: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlist for Housekeeping{{cite web|title=1982 Finalists|url=http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/1982|website=The Pulitzer Prizes|access-date=7 March 2015}}
• 1989: National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlist for Mother Country: Britain, the Welfare State, and Nuclear Pollution
• 1999: PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for The Death of Adam
• 2004: National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction for Gilead
• 2005: Ambassador Book Award for Gilead
• 2005: Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize for Gilead
• 2005: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Gilead{{Cite web|url=https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/marilynne-robinson|title=The 2005 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Fiction|website=www.pulitzer.org|language=en|access-date=2019-05-21}}
• 2006: University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion{{cite web|title=2006- Marilynne Robinson|url=http://grawemeyer.org/religion/previous-winners/2006-marilynne-robinson.html|publisher=Grawemeyer.org|access-date=2015-10-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404154918/http://grawemeyer.org/religion/previous-winners/2006-marilynne-robinson.html|archive-date=2014-04-04}}
• 2008: National Book Award for Fiction finalist for Home
• 2008: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction for Home
• 2009: Orange Prize for Fiction for Home
• 2011: Man Booker International Prize nominee
• 2012: Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Brown University{{cite web|title=Simmons among nine honorary degree recipients|url=https://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2012/05/hdcitations#Robinson|publisher=Brown University|access-date=28 May 2014|date=16 May 2012}}
• 2012: National Humanities Medal for "grace and intelligence in writing"[https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/03/president-obama-award-2012-national-medal-arts-and-national-humanities-m President Obama to Award 2012 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal] Whitehouse.gov, retrieved 30 June 2013
• 2013: Man Booker International Prize nominee
• 2013: Park Kyong-ni Prize{{cite web |url=http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20130926000648 |title=Park Kyung-ni literary prize goes to Robinson |work=Korea Herald |author=Julie Jackson |date=September 26, 2013 |access-date=July 7, 2014}}
• 2014: National Book Critics Circle Award for Lila{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/books/lila-by-marilynne-robinson-honored-as-top-fiction-by-national-book-critics-circle.html |title='Lila' Honored as Top Fiction by National Book Critics Circle |newspaper=New York Times |author=Alexandra Alter |date=March 12, 2015 |access-date=March 12, 2015}}
• 2014: National Book Award finalist for Lila
• 2015: Man Booker Prize longlist for Lila
• 2016: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction{{cite news |url=https://apnews.com/marilynne-robinson-wins-library-of-congress-fiction-prize-5a47ecfd55cf4f4ca70d3b1986471719 |title=Marilynne Robinson wins Library of Congress fiction prize |newspaper=Associated Press |date=March 29, 2016 |access-date=March 11, 2025}} and Dayton Literary Peace Prize{{cite web|url=http://daytonliterarypeaceprize.org/2016-holbrooke.htm|title=Dayton Literary Peace Prize - Marilynne Robinson, 2016 Recipient of the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award|first=Dayton Literary Peace Prize|last=Foundation|website=daytonliterarypeaceprize.org}}
• 2016: Premio Autore Straniero (Foreign Author Award), Il Premio Letterario Internazionale Mondello{{Cite web |title=Premio Autore Straniero - Marilynne Robinson |url=https://www.premiomondello.it/it/premio-mondello-xlii-edizione/premio-autore-straniero-marilynne-robinson-1674 |access-date=11 March 2025 |website=Il Premio Letterario Internazionale Mondello}}
• 2017: Chicago Tribune Literary Award
• 2019: Newberry Library Award
• 2021: Tulsa Library Trust Helmerich Distinguished Author Award
• 2023: University of Washington Alumni Summa Laude Dignata Award

• 2007: Amherst College
• 2010: Skidmore College
• 2011: College of the Holy Cross
• 2011: University of Oxford
• 2012: Brown University
• 2013: Sewanee: The University of the South
• 2013: University of Notre Dame
• 2015: Liverpool Hope University
• 2016: Lund University
• 2017: Duke University{{Cite web |date=2017-04-03 |title=Seven to Receive Honorary Degrees at 2017 Duke Commencement {{!}} Duke Today |url=https://today.duke.edu/2017/04/seven-receive-honorary-degrees-2017-duke-commencement |access-date=2025-06-23 |website=today.duke.edu |language=en}}
• 2017: University of Iowa{{Cite web |title=Honorary Degree Recipients {{!}} University of Iowa Honorary Degree Program - The University of Iowa |url=https://honorary-degrees.sites.uiowa.edu/honorary-degree-recipients |access-date=2025-06-23 |website=honorary-degrees.sites.uiowa.edu |language=en}}
• 2018: Yale University{{Cite web |date=2018-05-20 |title=Biographies of Yale’s 2018 honorary degree recipients {{!}} Yale News |url=https://news.yale.edu/2018/05/20/biographies-yales-2018-honorary-degree-recipients |access-date=2025-06-23 |website=news.yale.edu |language=en}}
• 2019: Boston College
• 2019: University of Cambridge{{Cite web |date=2019-06-19 |title=Cambridge confers 2019 honorary degrees {{!}} University of Cambridge |url=https://www.cam.ac.uk/news/cambridge-confers-2019-honorary-degrees |access-date=2025-06-23 |website=www.cam.ac.uk |language=en}}
• 2019: University of Portland
• 2024: Free University of Amsterdam

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