Jane Smiley
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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 mehr anzeigen 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) weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Jane Smiley
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer (2010) 185 Exemplare
Great American Short Stories (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions) (2012) — Einführung — 121 Exemplare
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection 2 Exemplare
The Saga of Icelanders 1 Exemplar
The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley 1 Exemplar
Mood of Christmas 1 Exemplar
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1884) — Mitwirkender — 1,432 Exemplare
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Einführung — 377 Exemplare
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Mitwirkender — 188 Exemplare
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Einführung — 186 Exemplare
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Mitwirkender; Einführung — 183 Exemplare
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Mitwirkender — 179 Exemplare
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Mitwirkender — 138 Exemplare
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Mitwirkender — 132 Exemplare
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Mitwirkender — 85 Exemplare
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Mitwirkender — 72 Exemplare
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Mitwirkender — 67 Exemplare
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond (2021) — Mitwirkender — 21 Exemplare
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Mitwirkender — 18 Exemplare
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Smiley, Jane
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Smiley, Jane Graves
- Geburtstag
- 1949-09-26
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Wohnorte
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
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- Vassar College (B.A.|1971)
University of Iowa (M.A.|1975|M.F.A.|1976)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1978)
John Burroughs School - Berufe
- novelist
professor - Organisationen
- University of California, Riverside
Iowa State University - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1997)
Fulbright scholarship
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001)
PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature (2006)
Robert Kirsch Award (2023) - Agent
- Molly Friedrich (Aaron Priest Literary Agency)
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What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned in Banned Books (Februar 21)
Jane Smiley: American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (April 2016)
June 2011 Read: Private Life in Missouri Readers (Juni 2011)
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These people, who really come to life in the book, sometimes die so easily and there is no dwelling upon it. It is a fascinating style that mirrors the harshness of the environment and the constant struggle and nearness of death the real Greenlanders were used to. This is a difficult book to read also because the reality is so unpleasant and the book makes it almost too real for the reader.
A space-time machine.… (mehr)