Jane Smiley
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Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1949. She received a B. A. from Vassar College in 1971 and an M.F.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops at Iowa State University. Her books visa mer include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Moo, Horse Heaven, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Some Luck, and Early Warning. In 1985, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story Lily, which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. A Thousand Acres received both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Serier
Verk av Jane Smiley
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer (2010) 185 exemplar
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection 2 exemplar
The Saga of Icelanders 1 exemplar
The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley 1 exemplar
Mood of Christmas 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1884) — Bidragsgivare — 1,432 exemplar
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Inledning — 377 exemplar
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Bidragsgivare — 188 exemplar
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Inledning — 186 exemplar
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Bidragsgivare; Inledning — 183 exemplar
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 179 exemplar
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 138 exemplar
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Bidragsgivare — 132 exemplar
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Bidragsgivare — 85 exemplar
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 67 exemplar
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Bidragsgivare — 18 exemplar
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 5 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Smiley, Jane
- Namn enligt folkbokföringen
- Smiley, Jane Graves
- Födelsedag
- 1949-09-26
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
Iceland - Utbildning
- Vassar College (B.A.|1971)
University of Iowa (M.A.|1975|M.F.A.|1976)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1978)
John Burroughs School - Yrken
- novelist
professor - Organisationer
- University of California, Riverside
Iowa State University - Priser och utmärkelser
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1997)
Fulbright scholarship
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001)
PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature (2006)
Robert Kirsch Award (2023) - Agent
- Molly Friedrich (Aaron Priest Literary Agency)
Medlemmar
Diskussioner
What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned i Banned Books (februari 21)
Jane Smiley: American Author Challenge i 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (april 2016)
June 2011 Read: Private Life i Missouri Readers (juni 2011)
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- Verk
- 51
- Även av
- 40
- Medlemmar
- 23,163
- Popularitet
- #910
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 700
- ISBN
- 576
- Språk
- 13
- Favoritmärkt
- 63
I had no problems finishing this long novel in a sitting and that might automatically count for a good grade for some, but I was only rather mildly interested and entertained, not emotionally involved or thrilled by virtuoso writing. I'd rather be alternately annoyed and amused by a more uneven, less "well made" novel!
Also, I felt there were some plot elements that were just too much, supposedly "shocking" but quite unbelievable and too conventionally handled. As previous reviewers have suggested, they may be modelled on the author's reading of King Lear rather than on any faithfulness to her own story. Since I felt rather detached from the entire narrative, though, those elements weren't exactly jarring, only slightly disappointing.… (mer)