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Jane Smiley (1949 – )

Nationality: AmericanPeriods: American: 20th Century

winner of the Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Acres

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The Adventures of Jane Smiley
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/bookauth/ba980528.htm
“The author of ten books of fiction, and of many nonfiction essays forU.S. News & World Report, The New York Times, and other publications, Smiley taught for fifteen years at Iowa State University, leaving in 1996 to live and write full-time in northern California. A passionate horseback rider, her next book will be set in the sometimes-seedy world of horse racing. Smiley spoke recently with Atlantic Unbound’s Katie Bacon.”
Contains: Interview
Author: Katie Bacon
From: Atlantic Monthly May 28, 1998
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Take a wild ride with Jane Smiley’s spirited new heroine
http://www.bookpage.com/9804bp/jane_smiley.html
“Jane Smiley doesn’t do autobiography. You won’t find her in Ginny, thenarrator of her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Thousand Acres, or in any of the ensemble cast of her wicked academic satire, Moo. “I don’twrite to investigate my own life or sensibility,” says the tall, elegantauthor. “I write more to investigate the world.”
Contains: Interview
Author: Ellen Kanner
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