J. Jill Robinson

Quick Facts

Full Name	J. Jill Robinson
Occupation	Novelist
Date Of Birth	Jun 16, 1955(1955-06-16)
Age	69
Birthplace	Langley, British Columbia
Country	Canada
Horoscope	Gemini

J. Jill Robinson Biography

J. Jill Robinson is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on June 16, 1955 in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. J. Jill Robinson was born in Langley, British Columbia in 1955, but she also had family ties to Alberta. Her mother grew up in Calgary while her father, a doctor, was from Banff. Robinson’s family loved books. “We don’t want to get into the dynamics of my family,” she once told a journalist, “because they were awful. One of the best things about my family was the mutual love of books. We would all go to different rooms and read them.”

Robinson earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Alaska in

1990. Her MFA thesis consisted of writings that later became the basis for Saltwater Trees, her first collection of short stories published in 1991 when she was 36. The Writers’ Guild of Alberta awarded Saltwater Trees its Howard O’Hagan prize for short fiction. Reviewer Mary Walters Riskin noted the book was a fine beginning to Robinson’s career. “One of the most refreshing aspects of this collection is that so many of the 13 stories in Saltwater Trees rise out of the insanities, the batterings and the drudgeries of real life to end on notes of hope,” Riskin wrote.

J. Jill Robinson moved from Calgary to Saskatoon in 1993 to join the writer, Steven Ross Smith whom she would later marry. In 1995, she published Eggplant Wife, a novella and short stories. The collection was shortlisted for the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award. A review in the Edmonton Journal noted Robinson’s “flair for domestic drama and detail. The plotting is almost incidental to the emotional states of the characters.” The novella tells the story of a young couple who leave Vancouver to move into his parents’ prairie farmhouse. Mitch had paid for his parents’ trip to Hawaii where they were swept away by a wave. The eggplant of the title refers to a bowl of ceramic fruits and vegetables in the farmhouse kitchen.

Lovely In Her Bones received favourable reviews. The Globe and Mail critic John Doyle wrote that the stories were ones of “quiet self absorption” adding: “Fortunately, they are written in a clear, lucid prose and often attain a rhythm that saves them from static solipsism.” He summed up the collection as “a mosaic of sharply observed events and incidents” calling it the “best type of short story collection” and adding: “At the close of the collection the mosaic has taken shape and stands as a radiant insight into the power of painful memories.” The Globe’s book editors listed Lovely In Her Bones as “among the books we couldn’t put down in 1993.”

In 1987, Robinson began writing seriously for the first time while attending the Banff School of Fine Arts. A year later, she enrolled in the creative writing program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. “I was the only Canadian in a graduate program with just 12 students in it…and it was great,” she told a reporter in 2004. She added that the program provided her with “a toolbox of techniques for writing and skills” while giving her a chance to read a wide variety of American writers. “That was really when it became clear that there was no doubt in my mind I was going to be a writer.”

J. Jill Robinson Net Worth

J. Jill Robinson is one of the richest Novelist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, J. Jill Robinson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Jacqueline Jill Robinson (born June 16, 1955) is a Canadian writer, editor and teacher. She is the author of a novel and four collections of short stories. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and literary journals including Geist, the Antigonish Review, Event, Prairie Fire and the Windsor Review. Her novel, More In Anger, published in 2012, tells the stories of three generations of mothers and daughters who bear the emotional scars of loveless marriages, corrosive anger and misogyny.

In the late 1970s, Robinson was living in Radium Hot Springs, B.C. when she decided she needed more education. She enrolled at the University of Calgary in 1979 and by 1985 had earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature and drama as well as a Master’s degree in Canadian and American literature. Her Master’s thesis was entitled, The circumferential vision: love and death in the poetry of Emily Dickinson.

She won an Honourable Mention in the National Magazine Awards for “The Letter,” a piece of personal journalism. Her short story collection Lovely In Her Bones was on the Globe and Mail’s top 100 books list for 1993. Residual Desire won a Silver Medal in ForeWord magazine’s Book of the Year Awards in

2004. And, CBC Radio commissioned the story Deja Vu for broadcast in 1998.

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Robinson says she struggled with the novel for 10 years and found it frustrating trying to find “a sense of structure, or narrative thrust, to make it work.” She adds that she found the novel much harder than writing short stories. “I’m a fairly organic writer, so I don’t construct my stories. That works fine for short stories. But when you have hundreds of pages of material, it’s really way harder to be organic about it.” In 2003, she told another journalist that she preferred writing short stories. “I like the smaller, more intense, more narrow focus,” she said. “I like to know where the edges are. You can move the boundaries by making the story longer or shorter, but you know where they are. Which isn’t the case with the novel.”

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J. Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. J. Jill Robinson celebrates birthday on June 16 of every year.

From September 1, 2004 to May 31, 2005, Robinson served as the 24th writer-in- residence at the Saskatoon Public Library. In 2009, she and her family moved from Saskatoon to Banff, Alberta where she now lives.