Phyllis K. Robinson was born on 22 October 1921 in New York, USA. She was married to Richard G. Robinson. She died on 31 December 2010 in New York, New York, USA.
She graduated with a Bachelor's Degree of Arts from Barnard College in 1942 in New York City with a major in sociology. During World War II, she was a statistician for the federal Public Housing Authority.