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Jane Smiley

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in Los Angeles, California, The United States

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http://www.therealjanesmiley.com/

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction

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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. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. 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. ...more

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LETTERS TO THE FUTURE: I Didn't Try to Save You as Hard as My Opponents Tried to Destroy You

When I was alive, I thought I was trying to save you, but I didn't try hard enough, or at least, I didn't try to save you as hard as my opponents tried to destroy you. I don't know why they did that. I could never figure that out.

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Jane Smiley’s books

Average rating: 3.72 · 191,873 ratings · 20,638 reviews · 132 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Thousand Acres 3.83 avg rating — 72,490 ratings — published 1991 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 20,699 ratings — published 2014 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perestroika in Paris 3.99 avg rating — 10,257 ratings — published 2020 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Early Warning (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 7,781 ratings — published 2015 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moo by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author), Isabelle Reinharez (Translator) 3.47 avg rating — 8,581 ratings — published 1995 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dangerous Business 3.17 avg rating — 8,872 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horse Heaven 3.89 avg rating — 5,478 ratings — published 1999 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden Age (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga #3) 3.80 avg rating — 4,830 ratings — published 2015 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert H. Kellogg (Introduction), Katrina C. Attwood (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 4,238 ratings — published 1997 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Grief 3.71 avg rating — 3,832 ratings — published 1987 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Polls

August 2020 New School Group Read Poll

2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke, 1968, 297 pages

83 votes, 25.2%

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy, 1997, 340 pages

73 votes, 22.2%

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus, 1942, 212 pages

48 votes, 14.6%

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, 1988, 561 pages

44 votes, 13.4%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 1940, 504 pages

36 votes, 10.9%

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, 1991, 371 pages

27 votes, 8.2%

Independent People by Halldór Laxness, 1934, 482 pages

18 votes, 5.5%

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