Kim Stanley Robinson

Kim Stanley Robinson
Robinson in 2017
Born	(1952-03-23) March 23, 1952 (age 72) Waukegan, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation	Writer
Education	University of California, San Diego (BA, PhD) Boston University (MA)
Genre	Science fiction
Academic background
Thesis	The Novels of Philip K. Dick (1982)
Doctoral advisor	Donald Wesling
Other advisors	Frederic Jameson
Academic work
Discipline	English and American literature
Sub-discipline	Science fiction
Institutions	University of California, Davis University of California, San Diego
Notable works	Mars trilogy

Kim Stanley Robinson (born March 23, 1952) is an American writer of science fiction. He has published 22 novels and numerous short stories and is best known for his Mars trilogy. His work has been translated into 24 languages. Many of his novels and stories have ecological, cultural, and political themes and feature scientists as heroes. Robinson has won numerous awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Novel, the Nebula Award for Best Novel and the World Fantasy Award. The Atlantic has called Robinson's work "the gold standard of realistic, and highly literary, science-fiction writing."^[1] According to an article in The New Yorker, Robinson is "generally acknowledged as one of the greatest living science-fiction writers."^[2]