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Mary Robison
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<p> Mary Cennamo Robison (born January 14, 1949, in <a href="/facts/Washington,_D.C./enXPK156">Washington, D.C.</a>, United States) is an American <a href="/facts/Short_story_writer/KU6X7XWI">short story writer</a> and <a href="/facts/Novelist/765JXnIr">novelist</a>. She has published four collections of stories, and four novels, including her 2001 novel <i>Why Did I Ever</i>, winner of the 2001 <a href="/facts/Los_Angeles_Times_Book_Prize/u4mRpc9N"><i>Los Angeles Times</i> Book Prize</a> for fiction. Her most recent novel, released in 2009, is <i>One D.O.A., One on the Way</i>. She has been categorized as a founding "minimalist" writer along with authors such as <a href="/facts/Amy_Hempel/5F3GIkgj">Amy Hempel</a>, <a href="/facts/Frederick_Barthelme/37SybuBb">Frederick Barthelme</a>, and <a href="/facts/Raymond_Carver/aE7h8Tz7">Raymond Carver</a>. In 2009, she won the <a href="/facts/Rea_Award_for_the_Short_Story/vcGrIQr6">Rea Award for the Short Story</a>. </p>