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A Writer’s Family: Roxana Robinson and Henry Ward Beecher

It wasn’t long after I became enraptured by the uncommon fiction of Roxana Robinson that I learned she was a direct descendant of the famous, controversial 19th century preacher Henry Ward Beecher and a relative of Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe. I was intrigued but somehow not surprised; it was easy to find threads of this weighty influence in Robinson’s fascinating and intense novels, which include This is My Daughter, Cost and the recent Sparta. A few weeks ago I got the chance to ask Roxana about her family history. In this first half of the interview, we talk mostly about Henry Ward Beecher. In the second half, we’ll focus on Harriet Beecher Stowe.

LEVI: How old were you when you found out you were a Beecher? How was the family heritage explained to you?

ROXANA: I must have known very early that I was a Beecher: Roxana is a Beecher name, so as soon as I knew my name I knew I was a Beecher.

Roxana was Lyman Beecher’s wife and the mother of Harriet Beecher

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Roxana Robinson

American novelist and biographer (born 1946)

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^[2] 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 Amer

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Roxana Robinson is a critically acclaimed fiction writer who is the author of four novels, including her most recent one, Cost (Picador, 2009), which was named one of the five best novels of the year by the Washington Post, won the Maine Fiction Award, and was long-listed for the Dublin Impac award, among others. Her other novels are Sweetwater(2005), This is my Daughter (1999), and Summer Light (1995).

Robinson’s fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper’s, The Atlantic, and numerous other magazines and journals. She is also a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review and Travel Section, and also reviews books for The Washington Post.

Her collections of stories include Asking for Love (Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997), A Glimpse of Scarlet and Other Stories (Perennial, 1992), and A Perfect Stranger and Other Stories (Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006).

A scholar of nineteenth and early twentieth century American art, Robinson’s biography of Georgia O’Keefe was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle A