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   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). [1] Biography. 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.

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   Apr 29, 2024 · Jane Smiley, American novelist known for her lyrical works that center on families in pastoral settings. She won a Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Acres (1991), which is her best-known book. Other novels included Moo (1995), Ten Days in the Hills (2007), and Perestroika in Paris (2020).

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4. www.latimes.com › jane-smiley-lucky-reviewIn Jane Smiley's 'Lucky,' does good sense make good fiction ...

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   Apr 19, 2024 · By Jane Smiley. Knopf: 384 pages, $29. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Toward the end of...

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6. www.goodreads.com › author › showJane Smiley (Author of A Thousand Acres) - Goodreads

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   Dec 8, 2015 · Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and 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.

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7. www.goodreads.com › author › listBooks by Jane Smiley (Author of A Thousand Acres) - Goodreads

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   • Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1) Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)
   • Perestroika in Paris Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)
   • Early Warning (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #2) Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)

8. www.npr.org › 2022/12/07 › 1141188436Jane Smiley's 'A Dangerous Business' is an entertaining ... - NPR

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   Dec 7, 2022 · Since the completion in 2015 of her ambitious multi-generational family saga, The Last Hundred Years trilogy, Jane Smiley has loosened up with two fun novels. A Dangerous Business is an...

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   • 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). 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.

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   When did Jane Smiley start writing?

   • 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. Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.

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   How many books does Jane Smiley have?

   • To add more books, click here . Jane Smiley has 130 books on Goodreads with 431288 ratings. Jane Smiley’s most popular book is A Thousand Acres.

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   Who is Jane Smiley in 'Lucky'?

   • There’s a name for that: songwriter. There’s another name for that: novelist. The cleverest trick in “Lucky” is that it introduces a fifth J: Jane Smiley, who we first meet as an unnamed high-school classmate of Jodie’s, a “gawky girl” who grew up to write acclaimed novels.

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10. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › A_Thousand_AcresA Thousand Acres - Wikipedia

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    A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name. It was premiered as an opera by the Des Moines Metro Opera during their 2022 season.