Publications:Books
A Perfect Stranger and Other Stories. (New York, Random House: 2005. Paperback, Random House: 2006)
The New York Times Editors' Choice
Sweetwater. A novel. (New York, Random House: 2003)
Published in Germany, under the title Sommer und See, Verlagsgruppe Random House.
To be published in paperback, Random House, USA, 2005.
New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
Best Fiction of the Year, Chicago Tribune.
This Is My Daughter. A novel. (New York, Random House: 1998. London, Bloomsbury: 1998. Germany: Ullstein Publishers, as Amandas Schwester, 2000; France: Belfond, 1999, as La Fille de L'Autre; and in Holland. New York, paper, Scribner's) Chosen by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the Year.
Asking for Love. Short stories. (New York, Random House: 1996. London, Bloomsbury: 1996) Chosen as a Notable Book of the Year by the American Library Association, 1997; Washington Irving Book Award, Westchester Library Association.
A Glimpse of Scarlet and Other Stories. Short stories. (New York, HarperCollins: 1991. London, Bloomsbury, 1991). The New York Times Notable Book of the Year, hardbound and paperback. To be published in Korea, by Pyungminsa.
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. (New York, Harper & Row: 1989, London, Bloomsbury: 1989.) Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The New York Times Notable Book of the Year, hardbound and paperback; Washington Irving Book Award. Nominated for the Charles Eldredge Award for Scholarship, Smithsonian Institution. (Published in Spain by Circe, 1992. Republished by University Press of New England, 1999)
Summer Light, a novel. (London, Dent, 1987. New York, Viking, 1988. Paperback, HarperCollins, 1990.) Nominated for the Washington Irving Book Award by the Westchester Library Association. Paperback, University Press of New England, 1995.
Awards
2006 – "A Perfect Stranger" was listed in Best American Short Stories.
2005 – "Blind Man" was listed in Best American Short Stories.
2003 – Sweetwater named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
2001 – “Face Lift” selected by Houghton Mifflin for inclusion in Best American Mystery Stories.
- “Family Christmas” Finalist, National Magazine Awards for Fiction
- “Face Lift” and “Family Christmas” listed in Best American Short Stories.
2000 - Fellowship from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation
- "Assistance," published in The Atlantic, listed in Best American Short Stories.
1999 - This Is My Daughter received the Washington Irving Award,
Westchester Library Association.
- Fellowship from the McDowell Colony, September- October
1998 - This Is My Daughter named a Notable Book of the Year, by The New York Times.
1997 - Asking for Love named as one of the Notable Books of the Year by the American Library Association
- Washington Irving Award, Westchester Library Association.
1995 - "King of the Sky" and "Leaving Home" listed in Best American Short Stories.
- Founders' Day Award for Literature, The Shipley School, Bryn Mawr, Pa. April 16, 1994
1994: "Mr. Sumarsono," story published in The Atlantic, chosen for Best American Short Stories.
1992: A Glimpse of Scarlet, paperback, named Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times.
- "The Time for Kissing," story published in The Atlantic, finalist, National Magazine Awards for fiction.
- "The Time for Kissing," listed in Best American Short Stories.
1991: A Glimpse of Scarlet, named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times.
Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life paperback, named one of the Recommended Books of the Year by The New York Times.
-Honored as a "Literary Lion" by the New York Public Library, New York, 1991
1989 Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life named one of the Recommended Books of the Year by The New York Times, 1989, hardbound, and 1990, paperback
- nominated for the Charles Eldredge Award for Scholarship, Smithsonian Institution, 1990
- nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award
- recipient of a Washington Irving Award, 1990
1989 Summer Light chosen for inclusion in the Pennsylvania Writers Collection
1988 Summer Light Washington Irving Book Award, Westchester Library Association, White Plains, NY
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship in Creative Writing
1984 "Getting On," published in The New Yorker, listed in Best American Short Stories.
Top
Art History Magazine Publications
William M. Harnett, edited by Doreen Bolger, Marc Simpson and John Wilmerding. Essays by Roxana Robinson et al. (NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry Abrams, 1992)
(Published under the name Roxana Barry)
Introduction to Arthur Dove, the catalogue raisonne by Ann Lee Morgan, (Newark: University of Delaware Press) 1984
"19th Century Picnic Paintings: An Arcadian Idyll," Art & Antiques, Jan-Feb 1983
"The Bathing Scene: People on the Beach in American Art, 1700- 1900" Antiques World, September 1981
"Land Of Plenty: 19th Century American Picnic and Harvest Scenes," exhibition catalogue, The Katonah Gallery, 1981
"Plane Truths," Art & Antiques, Sep-Oct 1981
"Plane Truths: 19th Century American Trompe l'Oeil Painting," exhibition catalogue, The Katonah Gallery, 1980
"Where are America's Missing Masterpieces?" ARTnews, December, 1980
"The Age of Blood and Iron: Marsden Hartley in Berlin," Arts, October, 1979
"Shapes of Industry: First Images in American Art," Exhibition catalogue, Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, 1975
"Rousseau, Buffalo Bill, and the European Image of the American Indian," ARTnews, December, 1975
Anthologies and Collections
Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave, Edited by Ellen Sussman. (W. W. Norton July 9, 2007)
The Empty Nest, Edited by Karen Stabiner, (Hyperion, 2007)
Mr. Wrong, Edited by Harriet Brown. (Ballantine Books, 2007)
This Is Not Chick Lit: Original Stories by America's Best Women Writers, edited by Elizabeth Merrick. (Random House, 2006)
My Father Married Your Mother, Edited by Anne Burt. (W.W. Norton, 2006)
City Secrets - New York City, Edited by Robert Kahn. (The Little Bookroom, New York. 2002)
110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11. Edited by Ulrich Baer. (NYU University Press, 2002)
Writers on Writing: Essays from The New York Times. Edited by John Darnton. (Times Books, New York, 2001).
Best American Mystery Stories of 2001, edited by Otto Penzler. (Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 2001)
Writing for a Lifetime: Contemporary Readings from Popular Sources. Edited by Jane Maher. (Prentice-Hall 2001)
The Second Penguin Book of Modern Women's Short Stories, edited by Susan Hill. (Michael Joseph, London: 1994)
Motherlove: Stories about Mothers. Edited by Katrina Kenison. (Farrar Straus: New York 1996)
Best American Short Stories of 1994, edited by Tobias Wolfe and Katrina Kenison. (Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1994)
Contemporary New England Stories, edited by C. Michael Curtis (Boston: Globe Pequot Press, 1992)
William M. Harnett, edited by Doreen Bolger, Marc Simpson and John Wilmerding. Essays by Roxana Robinson et al. (NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harry Abrams, 1992)
A Matter of Prejudice, and Other Stories, by Kate Chopin, Introduction by Roxana Robinson (Bantam, New York: 1992)
The Resourceful Writer: Readings to Accompany The Harbrace College Handbook, Second Edition. Edited by Suzanne S. Webb (Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich:1990)
Wives and Husbands: Stories About Marriage. Edited by Michael Nagle, (New York: Mentor Books, 1989)
Arthur Dove, by Ann Lee Morgan. Introduction by Roxana Barry (Robinson) (University of Delaware, 1984)
TopBook Reviews
The New York Times Book Review, December 4, 2005, page 64
Penelope Lively, Making It Up.
The Wilson Quarterly, 2005,
John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell. In The Company of Crows and Ravens,
Yale University Press.
The New York Times, March 9, 2003
Nancy Clark. The Hills at Home.
Washington Post Book World, July 28, 2002
John Hough. The Last Summer
Washington Post Book World, April 21, 2002
Eugene McCabe. Death and Nightingales.
Washington Post Book World. 2000
Karen Bender. Like Normal People.
New York Times, October 11, 1998
Susan Minot. Evening.
Washington Post Book World, April 5, 1998
Dorothy Allison. Cavedweller.
Washington Post Book World, February 1, 1998
David Gates. Preston Falls.
New York Times, December 14, 1997
Thomas Caplan. Grace and Favor.
New York Times, March 30, 1997
Fernanda Eberstadt. When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth.
Washington Post, December 10, 1996
Janet Peery. The River Beyond the World.
New York Times, November 3, 1996
Shena Mackay. The Orchard on Fire.
Washington Post Book World, October 6, 1996
Mona Simpson. A Regular Guy.
Washington Post Book World, April 21, 1996
Louise Erdrich. Tales of Burning Love.
Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1995
Sue Miller. The Distinguished Guest.
New York Times, October 26, 1993
Beatrice Kert. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller.
New York Times, April 25, 1993
Mary Morris. A Mother's Love.
New York Times, January 24, 1993
Diane Johnson. Natural Opium.
New York Times, March 15, 1992
Louis Auchincloss. False Gods
New York Times, September 29, 1991
Peter Cameron. Far-Flung
New York Times, July 21, 1991
David Small. Alone.
Newsday, June 30, 1991
John Pope-Hennessy. Learning to Look: My Life in Art
Jed Perls. Gallery Going: Four Seasons in the Art World.
New York Times, April 1990
Avis Berman. Rebels on 8th Street: Julianna Force and the Whitney Museum.
New York Times, January 24, 1988
Jill Paton Walsh. Lapsing.
New York Times, January 18, 1987
Dorie Friend. Family Laundry.
New York Times, August 10, 1986
J.I.M. Stewart. Parlour 4 and Other Stories.
New York Times, March 2, 1986
Francis King. One is a Wanderer
New York Times, Sep 8, 1985
Penelope Fitzgerald. At Freddie's.
Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec 29, 1985
Marina Warner, Monuments and Maidens.
New York Times, April 14, 1985
Jill Tweedie, Jewels.
New York Times, November 25, 1984
Thomas Baird. Villa Aphrodite.
Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 1984
Isabel Colegate. Three Novels.
TRAVEL
New York Times, Travel Section, May 2, 2004
"To Russia with Books."
New York Times, December 14, 2003
"Lairs of the Literary Lions of St. Petersburg."
Travel and Leisure, July, 2004
"New Zealand's Natural Wonders"
New York Times, June 1, 2003
"Wombats and Wallabies: Taronga Zoo, in Sydney."
Travel and Leisure, March 2000
Walking in Sicily
New York Times, July 21, 1996
Riding in Ireland
New York Times, February 4, 1996
Sailing on the Sea Cloud - Turkey
New York Times, May 29, 1994
Carl Larsson's House, Sweden
New York Times, May 27, 1990
Summer in Provence
New York Times, October 29, 1989
Egypt and the Nile
New York Times, Sophisticated Traveler,March 12, 1989
A Puritan at the Helm
New York Times, December 4, 1988
Safari in Africa
New York Times, Februrary 22, 1987
Berlitz Immersion Course
New York Times, November 23, 1986
John Gardner Tennis Ranch
New York Times, April 13, 1986
Chelsea Flower Show