1. Jane Smiley - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia 2004 Slate article The unteachable ignorance of the red states 2003 interview of Jane Smiley, IdentityTheory 1989 audio interview of Jane Smiley, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Smiley

Jane Smiley From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Jane Smiley (born September 26 ) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning American novelist Born in Los Angeles, California , Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri , a suburb of St. Louis , and graduated from John Burroughs School . She obtained an A.B. at Vassar College , then earned an M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa . While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind , in , and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly . Her best-selling A Thousand Acres , a story based on William Shakespeare 's King Lear , received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in . It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1997. In 1995 she wrote her sole television script, produced for an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street . Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the film The Secret Lives of Dentists Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel ), is a non-fiction meditation on the history and the nature of the novel, somewhat in the tradition of

2. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Jane Smiley Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California, moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri as an infant, and lived there through grammar school and high http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-smiley-jane.asp

var gDcsId = "dcs30w0vc10000chxa0maatv9_2u6z"; Interviews May 12, 2000 Jane Smiley's List of 100 Novels Click here to find more Jane Smiley ... Audible.com Books by Jane Smiley TEN DAYS IN THE HILLS 13 WAYS OF LOOKING AT THE NOVEL GOOD FAITH HORSE HEAVEN Reading Group Guides A THOUSAND ACRES HORSE HEAVEN Jane Smiley BIO Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California, moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri as an infant, and lived there through grammar school and high school (The John Burroughs School). After getting her B.A. at Vassar College in 1971, she traveled in Europe for a year, working on an archeological dig and sightseeing, and then returned to Iowa for graduate school at the University of Iowa. M.F.A. and Ph.D. in hand, she went to work in 1981 at Iowa State University in Ames, where she taught until 1996. She has two daughters, Phoebe Silag (1978) and Lucy Silag (1982), and one son, AJ Mortensen (1992). Jane is the author of ten works of fiction, including THE AGE OF GRIEF, THE GREENLANDERS, ORDINARY LOVE and GOOD WILL, A THOUSAND ACRES, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, MOO, HORSE HEAVEN and GOOD FAITH, as well as many essays for such magazines as Vogue The New Yorker Practical Horseman Harper's , the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times travel section

3. Jane Smiley - Politics On The Huffington Post Jane Smiley is a novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992, and her novel http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley

var tcdacmd="dt"; The Huffington Post Welcome Edit preferences Logout Log In Sign Up ... Living More on HuffPost... Politics HuffPolitics OffTheBus Fundrace Media Eat The Press Business Entertainment Living All Blogs All News Home The Blogs Jane Smiley Site Web Jane Smiley I'M A FAN OF THIS BLOGGER (get email alerts) Jane Smiley is a novelist and essayist. Her novel A Thousand Acres won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1992, and her novel The All True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton won the 1999 Spur Award for Best Novel of the West. Her novel Horse Heaven was short-listed for the Orange Prize in 2002. She has contributed to a wide range of magazines, including The New Yorker Elle Outside The New York Times Magazine Harper's The American Prospect Practical Horseman The Guardian Sport Monthly Real Simple , and Playboy . Smiley's latest book is Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel , a history and anatomy of the novel as a literary form (Knopf). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

4. Identity Theory | Interviews | Jane Smiley Jane Smiley is the author of The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, A Thousand Acres (which was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1992), http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum111.php

info submissions news donate navigation interviews fiction nonfiction music ... home extras idt store staff openings links backpage ... quotes "what am i looking at?" identity theory is a regularly published, web-based magazine of literature and culture edited by matt borondy. [ contact in case you missed them at the top of the page... info/staff submissions newsletter donate Jane Smiley Pulitzer Prize winner, author of Good Faith talks with Robert Birnbaum Posted: June 18, 2003 Images by Red Diaz/Duende Publishing Print this interview Jane Smiley is the author of The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, A Thousand Acres (which was a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1992) , Moo, Horse Heaven, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton and most recently, Good Faith The New Yorker, The Nation, Allure, Vogue, The New York Times Magazine and countless others. Jane Smiley lives in California with her three children, three dogs and sixteen horses.

5. BookPage Interview April 1998: Jane Smiley Jane Smiley doesn t do autobiography. You won t find her in Ginny, the narrator of her Pulitzer Prizewinning novel, A Thousand Acres, or in any of the http://www.bookpage.com/9804bp/jane_smiley.html

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6. Distinguished Alumni Winner: Jane G. Smiley Jane G. Smiley, 75MA, 76MFA, 78PhD, is one of the University of Iowa s bestknown graduates. The author of eleven works of fiction, she has won numerous http://www.iowalum.com/daa/smiley.html

Search our site Membership Member Services Homepage Benefits and Services For Members Only ... Home distinguished alumni award Jane G. Smiley Achievement 2003 Jane G. Smiley Achievement 2003 Jane G. Smiley, 75MA, 76MFA, 78PhD, is one of the University of Iowa's best-known graduates. The author of eleven works of fiction, she has won numerous literary awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres , which was made into a motion picture starring Jessica Lange. Smiley earned her B.A. from Vassar College in 1971 and came to the Iowa Writers' Workshop. After receiving her M.F.A. degree, she completed a Ph.D. from the Department of English in 1978. Smiley's novels have achieved the rare combination of critical acclaim and commercial success. A prolific writer, she has produced nine novels, as well as many short stories and essays. Besides A Thousand Acres -a modern retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear that follows the story of a Midwestern farm family's disintegration-her novels include The Greenlanders Moo (1995), and

7. Jane Smiley On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online Also known as smiley jane, Jane Smalley, Jane ed Smiley, Jane Smiley preface, Janes Smiley, SIGNED decorated endpapers Jane Smiley http://www.librarything.com/author/smileyjane

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog Elena Seibert 1 picture add a picture Author: Jane Smiley Also known as: Smiley Jane Jane Smalley Jane ed Smiley Jane Smiley preface ... SIGNED decorated endpapers Jane Smiley Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Jane Smiley combine/separate works A thousand acres 1512 copies, 19 reviews Moo 810 copies, 11 reviews The sagas of Icelanders : a selection 489 copies, 2 reviews 362 copies, 9 reviews Horse heaven 317 copies, 3 reviews Good faith 250 copies, 6 reviews Thirteen ways of looking at the novel 247 copies, 6 reviews The Greenlanders 237 copies, 2 reviews Duplicate keys 204 copies, 3 reviews The age of grief : a novella and stories 156 copies, 3 reviews Ten days in the hills 153 copies, 3 reviews 111 copies, 1 review 103 copies, review Barn blind 99 copies, 1 review At paradise gate : a novel 87 copies, 2 reviews see all 25 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars 1 stars 1.5 stars

8. New York State Writers Institute - Jane Smiley Jane smiley jane Smiley September 16, 2005 (Friday) 415 p.m. Reading Campus Center 375 UAlbany, Uptown Campus A Conversation with Jane Smiley http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/smiley_jane.html

Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist J ane S miley September 16, 2005 (Friday) 4:15 p.m. Reading Campus Center 37 UAlbany, Uptown Campus A Conversation with Jane Smiley Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist renowned for the variety and originality of her work. "[Smiley is] one of the premier novelists of her generation, possessed of a mastery of craft and an uncompromising vision that grows more powerful with each book." - Wendy Smith, Washington Post Book World Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005), the book that resulted from that project is a multifaceted work: a personal appreciation of the 100 novels on her reading list; a penetrating examination of what a novel is; a joyous discussion of the pleasures of reading; and a valuable guide for would-be novelists. Tale of Genji , two Icelandic sagas, and Boccaccio's The Decameron ; classic early novels such as Don Quixote Robinson Crusoe , and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ; 19th century works such as Frankenstein, Moby Dick Madame Bovary , and Anna Karenina ; 20th century works such as Ulysses Orlando Their Eyes Were Watching God , and Lolita ; and very recent works such as Francine Prose 's Guided Tours of Hell , Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life , Zadie Smith's White Teeth , Ian McEwan's Atonement , and, 100th on the list, Jennifer Egan 's Look at Me "Bracing literary criticism from a practitioner's point of view . Stimulating, provocative and unfailingly intelligentin short, vintage Smiley."

9. Jane Smiley Jane Smiley Born 26Sep-1949 Birthplace Los Angeles, CA. Gender Female Race or Ethnicity White Sexual orientation Straight Occupation Novelist http://www.nndb.com/people/493/000104181/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Jane Smiley Born: 26-Sep Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States Executive summary: A Thousand Acres Husband: John Whiston (m. 1970, div. 1975) Husband: William Silag (m. 1978, div. 1986, two daughters) Daughter: Phoebe Silag (b. 1978) Daughter: Lucy Silag (b. 1982) Husband: Stephen M. Mortensen (m. 1987, div. 1997, one son) Son: AJ Mortensen (b. 1992) High School: John Burroughs School University: BA, Vassar College (1971) University: MFA, University of Iowa University: PhD, University of Iowa Professor: Iowa State University (1981-96) America Coming Together American Academy of Arts and Letters Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1992 for A Thousand Acres Author of books: Barn Blind , novel) At Paradise Gate , novel) Duplicate Keys , novel) The Age of Grief , short stories) The Greenlanders , novel) , novel) A Thousand Acres , novel) Moo , novel) The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton , novel) Horse Heaven , novel) Good Faith , novel) Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel , nonfiction) Do you know something we don't?

10. EReader.com: Author: Jane Smiley Jane Smiley is the author of many novels, including A Thousand Acres, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and Horse Heaven. She lives in Northern California. http://www.ereader.com/author/detail/2049

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11. Jane Smiley - Authors - Books - Fine Arts - News When journalist Lawrence O Donnell of the McLaughlin Group posted John Edwards Is a Loser , Pulitzerprize–winning author and Breck Girl fan Jane Smiley http://www.wikio.com/fine_arts/books/authors/jane_smiley

Search Jane Smiley All News News Blogs New tab personalize your page by selecting the info that interests you! relevance date popularity Subscribe News Fine Arts Books Authors Jane Smiley Jane Smiley To read today's news personalize this page Vote! Jane Smiley Reveals: Moonbat Lawrence O'Donnell Is an Agent of Karl Rove! Moonbattery - 01/15/2008 Tags : Authors Diebold Fine Arts John Edwards ... Office Supplies and Equipment Establishment liberals really let their hair down at the Huffington Post, where they think only their fellow moonbats are watching. When journalist Lawrence O'Donnell of the McLaughlin Group posted " John Edwards Is a Loser ," Pulitzer -prize–winning author and Breck Girl fan Jane Smiley threw such a tantrum, she nearly lost her tinfoil hat. O'Donnell's main objection to Silky Pony is... add comment send to a friend Vote! Jane Smiley: Match Race The Huffington Post - 01/15/2008 Tags : Authors Fine Arts Media Only two primaries so far and we already see it each day brings news of a more intense rivalry that could easily create permanent bad blood between the two candidates and their supporters. add comment send to a friend Vote!

12. Smiley Jane - AEI Speakers Bureau Jane Smiley is the author of numerous works of fiction, including The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, A Thousand Acres, http://www.aeispeakers.com/speakerbio.php?SpeakerID=671

13. Talk Talk: Nick Nolte, Jane Smiley, Liv Tyler, Guster - TV Squad Talk Talk Nick Nolte, Jane Smiley, Liv Tyler, Guster The Maloof Brothers, and Paolo Nutini; Tavis smiley jane Smiley and Julian McMahon http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/03/23/talk-talk-nick-nolte-jane-smiley-liv-tyler-gus

@import url(/media/style.css); What's happening at Sundance? TVSquad Luxist ParentDish ... FAQ Talk Talk: Nick Nolte, Jane Smiley, Liv Tyler, Guster Posted Mar 23rd 2007 5:42PM by Bob Sassone Filed under: ABC NBC CBS Late Night ... Talk Show Charlie Rose : John F. Burns of The NY Times and Henry Kissinger The Late Show With David Letterman : Hugh Jackson, Chris Elliot, and Jimmie Johnson (repeat) Jay Leno : Nick Nolte and Guster Jimmy Kimmel Live : Don Cheadle, The Maloof Brothers, and Paolo Nutini Tavis Smiley Jane Smiley and Julian McMahon Late Night With Conan O'Brien : Liv Tyler, Gerard Butler, and The Fratellis The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson : Jennifer Hudson, Gerard Butler, and Anberlin (repeat) Last Call With Carson Daly : Piper Perabo and Unwritten Law Tags: daly ferguson kimmel late night talk shows ... Comments Related Headlines Talk Talk: Former President Bill Clinton, Martha Stewart, Justin Timberlake (44 days ago - 1 Comment) Talk Talk: Tom Brokaw, Senator Dick Durbin, Angelina Jolie (48 days ago - 1 Comment) Talk Talk: James Taylor, The Coen Brothers, Rascal Flatts (72 days ago - Comments) Talk Talk: Jerry Seinfeld, Steve Martin, Diane Lane

14. Jane Smiley - Wikipedia Translate this page Smiley schrieb bisher über Politik, Landwirtschaft, Pferdedressur, Literatur von und über Jane Smiley im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Smiley

Jane Smiley aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Jane Smiley 26. September in Los Angeles ) ist eine US-amerikanische Autorin und Pulitzer-Preis -Tr¤gerin. Geboren in Los Angeles zog sie als Baby in eine Vorstadt von St. Louis Missouri um, und lebte dort bis zum Abschluss der High School. zog sie f¼r ein Jahr nach Europa und arbeitete dort als Arch¤ologin und Touristenf¼hrerin. Danach studierte sie am Vassar College und der Iowa State University Sie war dreimal verheiratet mit John Whiston William Silag (1978-1986) und Stephen M. Mortensen (1987-1997). Zwei T¶chter, Phoebe Silag (* 1978) und Lucy Silag (* 1982) und einen Sohn, AJ Mortensen Bearbeiten Werke Smiley schrieb bisher ¼ber Politik, Landwirtschaft, Pferdedressur, Kindererziehung, Literatur, die Barbiepuppe, Heirat und vieles mehr, was die Time zur Frage bewegte was Jane Smiley denn nicht k¶nne. The Age of Grief The Greenlanders (dt. Die Gr¶nland-Saga Ordinary Love and Good Will A Thousand Acres (wof¼r sie den Pulitzer-Preis erhielt) Moo Horse Heaven Bearbeiten Weblinks Literatur von und ¼ber Jane Smiley im Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Personendaten NAME Smiley, Jane

15. Jane Smiley Awardwinning author jane smiley s new book, Horse Heaven. http://www.randomhouse.com/features/smiley/

Click here to buy the book "It's not true," says a character in Jane Smiley's funny, passionate, and brilliant new novel of horse racing, "that anything can happen at the racetrack," but many astonishing and affecting things do and in Horse Heaven , we find them woven into a marvelous tapestry of joy and love, chicanery, folly, greed, and derring-do. There are the geldings Justa Bob, the plain brown horse who always wins by a nose, a lovable claimer who passes from owner to owner on a heart-wrenching journey down from the winner's circle; and the beautiful Mr. T., raced in France and rescued in Texas, who is discovered to have some unusual and amazing talents. And then there is the Jack Russell terrier, Eileen, a dog with real convictions and the will to implement them. The strange, compelling, sparkling, and mysterious universe of horse racing that has fascinated generations of punters and robber barons, horse-lovers and wits, has never before been depicted with such verve and originality, such tenderness, such clarity, and, above all, such sheer exuberance. Random House

16. Powells.com Interviews - Jane Smiley Who s Happiest in Horse Heaven, jane smiley or the Horses? Dave Weich, Powells.com The answer depends entirely on which horse you re talking about. http://www.powells.com/authors/smiley.html

@import url(/css/combined_css.css); @import url(/css/sections.css); Skip navigation Browse Sections Bestsellers New Arrivals ... Kevin Young Find Books Award Winners Book Clubs Hosted Bookshelves Harry Potter ... Staff Picks Read the City Author Interviews Original Essays Fup. Store Cat. Review-a-Day ... Blog Win Free Books! Daily Dose PowellsBooks.news January 16, 2008 Archived Editions More newsletters Technica January 10, 2008 Archived Editions More newsletters PowellsBooks.kids January 23, 2008 Archived Editions More newsletters Read an original essay by Neil Shubin and save 30% on Your Inner Fish Hardcover Read an original essay by Neil Swidey and save 30% on The Assist Hardcover Who's Happiest in Horse Heaven, Jane Smiley or the Horses? Dave Weich , Powells.com The answer depends entirely on which horse you're talking about. In Horse Heaven , we meet horses bound for glory and others who suffer an endless succession of days locked in filthy stalls, neglected by their owners. Smiley takes us to the backside of Belmont and Hollywood Park, to breeding farms, veterinary hospitals, and auction houses where owners bid small (and not so small) fortunes on the prospects of young, untested, but immaculately bred fillies and colts. We wake up with trainers at five a.m. to be at the barn by six and take our morning walk past the stalls. We sleep in late in Paris and laze around in bed, contemplating acquisition. We run hard among brilliant twelve hundred pound beasts. In 1992

17. The Unteachable Ignorance Of The Red States. - By Jane Smiley - Slate Magazine By jane smiley Updated Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004, at 624 PM ET. The day after the election, . jane smiley is the author of many novels and essays. http://www.slate.com/id/2109218/

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18. Books & Authors - 98.05.28 In a controversial Harper s essay titled Say It Ain t So, Huck (January 1996), jane smiley argued, in part, that to invest The Adventures of Huckleberry http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/bookauth/ba980528.htm

In her latest novel, Jane Smiley lights out for the territories in search of slavery and the American anti-romance May 28, 1998 I n a controversial Harper's essay titled "Say It Ain't So, Huck" (January 1996), Jane Smiley argued, in part, that "to invest The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with 'greatness' is to underwrite a very simplistic and evasive theory of what racism is." With the recent release of Smiley's latest novel, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, it now seems clear that when Smiley wrote that article she was working through her own ideas of how one should treat race in fiction. A picaresque novel set in "Bloody Kansas" in the 1850s, when the territory was torn by violence over whether it should be admitted to the Union as a free state, Lidie Newton follows the escapades of its tomboy narrator as she experiences the extremes of opinion and the moral grey areas surrounding slavery. Discuss this interview in the forum of Speaking of Race (May 1998) Patricia Williams, the author of Seeing a Color-Blind Future

19. Writers Writing: The Muse: The Listener Also Instructs www.nytimes.com/library/books/042699smileywriting.html - jane smiley Carmel Valley, Calif., Jan. 24, 2004 http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/042699smiley-writing.html

April 26, 1999 WRITERS WRITING The Muse: The Listener Also Instructs By JANE SMILEY he wholesale transformation of my writing life began, I suppose inevitably, with just a notion. I was beginning a new novel, a comic novel about horse racing, and I have to say I was inordinately pleased with it. Robert Blakeman/ Alfred A. Knopf Jane Smiley Related Link Featured Author: Jane Smiley I had written a comic novel before, "Moo," and I had certainly been my own best audience, sitting in my office, writing funny lines and pages and chapters, and laughing all the while. From time to time during "Moo" I would sashay out, a couple of pages in hand, and read something aloud, only to be greeted with well-meaning but blank stares. What in the world, who in the world, was I talking about? In the end "Moo" found an audience, and several years after I so enjoyed myself, I started getting reviews and letters from others who also enjoyed themselves. But too late. I was writing "The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton" by that time, and was no longer in the mood. So. I had a new friend and a new novel. What could be simpler than to bring the two together, that is, read the thing aloud to him chapter by chapter?

20. Barbaro, The Heart In The Winner's Circle - Washingtonpost.com jane smiley is the author of Horse Heaven, A Year at the Races and the forthcoming Ten Days in the Hills. Print This Article EMail This Article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/29/AR2007012901004.

var SA_Message="SACategory=" + 'sports/index/horseracing'; Hello Change Preferences Sign Out Sign In Register Now ... Pets SEARCH: washingtonpost.com Web Search Archives washingtonpost.com Sports Leagues and Sports ... E-Mail This Article E-mail Newsletters View a Sample and Sign Up Washington Nationals Washington Redskins Manage Your Newsletters Appreciation Barbaro, The Heart In the Winner's Circle By Jane Smiley Special to The Washington Post Tuesday, January 30, 2007; Page C01 Nine years ago, I had a thoroughbred mare who came down with colic in the night, and was too far gone to save by the time she was found at 6 a.m. After she was euthanized, I remember staring at her body, which was stretched out in the grass, running my hands over her. Her coat was shining. Her haunch was rounded and firm. Her feet and legs were perfect. Only that one thing had been wrong, that twist in her gut, but it was enough, and it killed her. So it is with all horses. They are engineered so close to the margins of what is physically possible that when one thing fails, it can cause the failure of the whole animal. BEAUTY AND FRAGILITY Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro is euthanized after an eight-month struggle to recover from an injured leg.

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