 She lives in New York, Maine and Connecticut with her husband.Her daughter is a painter whose work appeared on both the hardcover and paperback editions of "Cost".Hailed as "one of our best writers" by Jonathan Yardley of "The Washington Post", and "John Cheever’s heir apparent" by the "New York Times Book Review", Robinson has also been said, by "TIME", to be in the "august company" of Edith Wharton, Louis Auchincloss and Henry James.