Jane Smiley was born on September 26,1949 and is an American novelist.
10 Facts About Jane Smiley
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Jane Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres.
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Jane Smiley obtained a BA in literature at Vassar College, then earned an MA, MFA, and PhD from the University of Iowa.
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Jane Smiley returned to teaching creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, in 2015.
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Jane 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.
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Jane Smiley's best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.
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In 2001, Jane Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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Jane Smiley has participated in the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the Cheltenham Festival, the National Book Festival, the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, and many others.
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Jane Smiley won the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006, and chaired the judges' panel for the prestigious Man Booker International Prize in 2009.
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Jane Smiley's then wrote a trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of generations.