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Anthony Robinson (born 1931) is an American novelist and short story writer, and for many years a professor of creative writing at SUNY New Paltz. The son of novelist Henry Morton Robinson, he grew up in the Maverick Art Colony in Woodstock, New York. He graduated from Columbia University, where he was a protege of Mark Van Doren and George Nobbe, who encouraged him to pursue a career in writing. He served in the U. S. Navy from 1953-56 aboard the USS Owen, a WWII destroyer, in the final days of the Korean War, as a lieutenant (junior grade).. A story he wrote aboard ship, “The Farlow Express,” was published in Prairie Schooner and was later included in Best American Short Stories of 1957. His first novel, A Departure From the Rules, drew on his Navy experience. He received his Master's degree in American Literature from Columbia after the conclusion of his Navy service. He joined the New Paltz faculty in 1964, and remained there (spending the academic year of 1970-71 teaching at the University of Paris at Vincennes in an exchange program) until his retirement in 2000. His first marriage ended in 1971 with the tragic death of his wife, Mary. He remarried in 1998, to artist Tania Padwa, a childhood friend from Woodstock. He has two children, Jennifer and Henry, from his first marriage.