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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 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) — biography from A Thousand Acres… (more)
A Thousand Acres 5,949 copies, 136 reviews
Moo 2,469 copies, 61 reviews
Some Luck 1,216 copies, 76 reviews
Horse Heaven 1,118 copies, 21 reviews
The Greenlanders 1,089 copies, 31 reviews
Good Faith 876 copies, 16 reviews
Duplicate Keys 716 copies, 18 reviews
Private Life 710 copies, 55 reviews
Ten Days in the Hills 634 copies, 19 reviews
Early Warning 536 copies, 25 reviews
The Age of Grief 529 copies, 12 reviews
Ordinary Love and Good Will 481 copies, 12 reviews
Golden Age 405 copies, 21 reviews
Barn Blind 374 copies, 9 reviews
Charles Dickens 351 copies, 15 reviews
At Paradise Gate 302 copies, 6 reviews
Perestroika in Paris 295 copies, 24 reviews
A Dangerous Business 215 copies, 23 reviews
Twenty Yawns 211 copies, 9 reviews
A Good Horse 143 copies, 2 reviews
Best New American Voices 2006 79 copies, 1 review
A Thousand Acres [1997 film] (Author) 27 copies
The Hillside 21 copies, 2 reviews
The Strays of Paris 15 copies, 1 review
Little Women (Introduction, some editions) 17,245 copies, 408 reviews
The Mill on the Floss (Afterword, some editions) 8,278 copies, 115 reviews
Of Human Bondage (Introduction, some editions) 8,074 copies, 138 reviews
The Return of the Native (Introduction, some editions) 7,610 copies, 92 reviews
Crossing to Safety (Introduction, some editions) 4,069 copies, 136 reviews
Nancy's Mysterious Letter (Introduction, some editions) 2,422 copies, 19 reviews
The Sagas of Icelanders (Preface) 2,309 copies, 17 reviews
The Fish Can Sing (Introduction, some editions) 606 copies, 19 reviews
The Moonflower Vine (Foreword, some editions) 603 copies, 33 reviews
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (Foreword) 352 copies, 5 reviews
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking (Preface, some editions) 341 copies, 3 reviews
School for Love (Introduction, some editions) 260 copies, 15 reviews
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous… (Contributor; Introduction) 178 copies, 1 review
The Barbie Chronicles: A Living Doll Turns Forty (Contributor) 104 copies, 1 review
The Best American Short Stories 1985 (Contributor) 57 copies
Marta Oulie: A Novel of Betrayal (Introduction, some editions) 56 copies, 2 reviews
Horse Stories (Contributor) 15 copies

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