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Template:Short description Template:Infobox artist Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).<ref name=":0" />

BiographyEdit

Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St Louis, and graduated from Community School and from John Burroughs School. She obtained an AB in literature at Vassar College (1971), then earned an MA (1975), MFA (1976) and PhD (1978) from the University of Iowa.<ref Name="Brit">Biography at the Encyclopædia Britannica.</ref> While working toward her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> From 1981 to 1996 she was a Professor of English at Iowa State University,<ref Name="Brit"/> teaching undergraduate and graduate creative-writing workshops. In 1996 she relocated to California. She returned to teaching creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, in 2015.

CareerEdit

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 of the same title in 1997. Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists. Her essay ‘Feminism Meets the Free Market’ was included in the 2006 anthology Mommy Wars<ref>Mommywars.net</ref> by Washington Post writer Leslie Morgan Steiner. Her essay ‘Why Bother?’ appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Company in 2013. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005) is a non-fiction meditation on the history and the nature of the novel, somewhat in the tradition of E. M. Forster's seminal Aspects of the Novel, and roams from eleventh century Japan's Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji to 21st-century American women's literature.Template:Citation needed

In 2001 Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She has participated in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Cheltenham Festival, the National Book Festival, the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts and many others. She won the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006,<ref name="PEN Award">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and chaired the judges' panel for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2009.<ref>Man Booker Prize Template:Webarchive</ref>

Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections (2001), considers Smiley's book The Greenlanders to be greatly underappreciated and among the best works of contemporary American fiction.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

File:The colourful and talented Jane Smiley, speaking on her most recent novel, "Some Luck." (15654225655).jpg
Jane Smiley speaking at the Vancouver Writers Fest on her 2014 novel, Some Luck

Smiley then wrote a trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of generations. The first novel of the trilogy, Some Luck, was published in 2014 by Random House.<ref name="NPR">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The second volume followed in the spring of 2015 and the third volume in the fall of 2015.

Smiley's A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck has been compared to English author Jilly Cooper's 2010 novel Jump!<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

AwardsEdit

Smiley received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2006 she received the Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature, which is given annually in Rockville, Maryland, the city where Fitzgerald, his wife and his daughter are buried, as part of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Festival.

WorksEdit

NovelsEdit

Short story collectionsEdit

  • The Age of Grief (1987)
  • Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989)

Non-fiction booksEdit

  • Catskill Crafts (1988)
  • Charles Dickens (2003)
  • A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck (2004)
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005)
  • The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010)

Young adult novelsEdit

  • The Georges and the Jewels (2009)
  • A Good Horse (2010)
  • True Blue (2011)
  • Pie in the Sky (2012)
  • Gee Whiz (2013)
  • Riding Lessons (2018)
  • Saddles and Secrets (2019)
  • Taking the Reins (2020)

Children's booksEdit

  • Twenty Yawns (2016)

ReferencesEdit

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