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Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, where she graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained a A.B. at Vassar College, then earned a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught at Iowa State University.
Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story "Lily," which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. It was adapted into a film in 1997.
In 2001, Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Bibliography
- Barn Blind (1980)
- At Paradise Gate (1981)
- Duplicate Keys (1984)
- The Age of Grief (short stories; 1992)
- The Greenlanders (1988)
- Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989)
- A Thousand Acres (1991)
- Moo (1995)
- The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998)
- Horse Heaven (2000)
- Good Faith (2003)
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (nonfiction; 2005)
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