Three daughters and their husbands are pulled into a tangle of love, jealousy, and fear when their father, Larry Cook, grows too old to manage the family's fertile thousand-acre farm. A Thousand Acres is the powerful, mythic story of an American farm family and the land that nourishes and consumes its members. In 2001, Smiley was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters.Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Jane Smiley's spellbinding novel also headed best-seller lists for many months. Forster's seminal Aspects of the Novel, that roams from eleventh century Japan's Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji to twenty-first century Americans chick lit. Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005), is a non-fiction meditation on the history and the nature of the novel, somewhat in the tradition of E. Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists. In 1995 she wrote her sole television script produced, for an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1997. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. Henry Award for her short story 'Lily', which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. From 1981 to 1996, she taught at Iowa State University. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.īorn in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.

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