Jane Smiley
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What did Jane Smiley win the Pulitzer Prize?
A Thousand Acres
Is Jane Smiley married?
This interview was conducted last September at the mountainside house in Carmel Valley, California, that Smiley shares with her husband, Jack Canning (Smiley has dedicated the Last Hundred Years trilogy to her four husbands—John, Bill, Steve, and Jack), and their three dogs, Frida, Fallon, and Abby Rose.
Where did Jane Smiley grow up?
Born in 1949, she grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and earned degrees in literature from Vassar College and the University of Iowa. Smiley taught at Iowa State University for 15 years before turning to writing full-time.18 Jan 2016
What does Jane Smiley write about?
Smiley's most recent works are a trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of generations. The first novel of the trilogy, Some Luck, was published in 2014 by Random House. The second volume followed in the spring of 2015, and the third volume in the fall of 2015.
Why did a thousand acres win the Pulitzer Prize?
Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres," a novel that weaves the plot of "King Lear" through the story of an Iowa farm woman who was sexually abused by her father, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction yesterday.8 Apr 1992
Who won 2 Pulitzer prizes?
Many people have won more than one Pulitzer Prize. Steve Coll is the only person who has ever won both a prize for arts and letters and one for journalism.