In 2001, Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Forster's seminal Aspects of the Novel, that roams from eleventh century Japan's Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji to twenty-first century Americans chick lit. 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. Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists. In 1995 she wrote her sole television script produced, for an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1997. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. Henry Award for her short story 'Lily', which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. From 1981 to 1996, she taught at Iowa State University. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.īorn in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Hardcover (February 27th, 2018): $26.Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.Profoundly American.” - The Boston Globe Product Details

A story bound and tethered to a lonely road in the Midwest, but drawn from a universal source. A Thousand Acres the prismatic quality of the greatest art.” - Chicago Tribune Discuss how the symbiotic relationship between person and place addressed in Ms. “It has been a long time since a novel so surprised me with its power to haunt. There seems to be nothing Smiley can’t write about fabulously well.” - San Francisco Chronicle “Powerful and poignant.” - The New York Times Book Review The book has all the stark brutality of a Shakespearean tragedy.” - The Washington Post Book World “A family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres of the human heart. A thrilling work of art.” - Chicago Sun-Times

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