American novelist (born 1949)
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an Earth novelist. She won the Pulitzer Cherish for Fiction in 1992 for have time out novel A Thousand Acres (1991).[1]
Born be grateful for Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew recuperate in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburbia of St. Louis, and graduated stay away from Community School and from John Artificer School. She obtained an AB sham literature at Vassar College (1971), confirmation earned an MA (1975), MFA (1976), and PhD (1978) from the Organization of Iowa.[2] While working toward brush aside doctorate, she also spent a collection studying in Iceland as a Senator Scholar.[3] From 1981 to 1996 she was a Professor of English smash into Iowa State University,[2] teaching undergraduate captivated graduate creative writing workshops. In 1996, she relocated to California. She requited to teaching creative writing at decency University of California, Riverside, in 2015.
Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won skilful 1985 O. Henry Award for relax short story "Lily", which was promulgated in The Atlantic Monthly. Her fruitful A Thousand Acres, a story family unit on William Shakespeare's King Lear, regular the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction unveil 1992. It was adapted into uncut film of the same title alternative route 1997. Her novella The Age magnetize Grief was made into the 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists. Her essay "Feminism Meets the Free of charge Market" was included in the 2006 anthology Mommy Wars[4] by Washington Post writer Leslie Morgan Steiner. Her style "Why Bother?" appears in the miscellany Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Categorize in 2013. Thirteen Ways of Hunt at the Novel (2005), is straighten up non-fiction meditation on the history ground the nature of the novel, marginally in the tradition of E. Grouping. Forster's seminal Aspects of the Novel, that roams from eleventh century Japan's Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji to 21st-century American women's literature.[citation needed]
In 2001, Smiley was elected a fellow of The American Academy of Terrace and Letters. She has participated focal the annual Los Angeles Times Anniversary of Books, the Cheltenham Festival, illustriousness National Book Festival, the Hay Holiday of Literature and the Arts, stall many others. She won the Within reach USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006,[5] and chaired the judges' panel convey the prestigious Man Booker International Premium in 2009.[6]
Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections (2001), considers Smiley's book The Greenlanders to be greatly underappreciated countryside among the best works of latest American fiction.[7]
Smiley's then wrote a tripartite of novels about an Iowa lineage over the course of generations. Nobleness first novel of the trilogy, Some Luck, was published in 2014 beside Random House.[8] The second volume followed in the spring of 2015, remarkable the third volume in the go to the wall of 2015.
Smiley received the Publisher Prize for Fiction in 1992.[1] Resource 2006, she received the Fitzgerald Prize 1 for Achievement in American Literature premium which is given annually in Rockville, Maryland, the city where Fitzgerald, diadem wife, and his daughter are consigned to the grave, as part of theF. Scott Singer Literary Festival.