Jane Smiley
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A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
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Séries
Œuvres de Jane Smiley
A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck (2004) 213 exemplaires, 4 critiques
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer (2010) 190 exemplaires, 7 critiques
Great American Short Stories (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions) (2013) — Introduction; Directeur de publication — 128 exemplaires
The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom (2023) 25 exemplaires, 2 critiques
La edad de la aflicción 2 exemplaires
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection 2 exemplaires
Un métier dangereux 1 exemplaire
Les Aventures véridiques de Lidie Newton 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Les quatre filles du docteur March (1868) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 27,176 exemplaires, 410 critiques
Quand Alice rencontre Alice (1932) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 2,772 exemplaires, 20 critiques
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1884) — Contributeur — 1,602 exemplaires, 8 critiques
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contributeur — 1,147 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contributeur — 451 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014 (2014) — Avant-propos — 397 exemplaires, 5 critiques
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introduction — 384 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking (1979) — Preface, quelques éditions — 360 exemplaires, 3 critiques
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contributeur — 190 exemplaires, 1 critique
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Introduction — 188 exemplaires, 3 critiques
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contributeur; Introduction — 187 exemplaires, 1 critique
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contributeur — 184 exemplaires, 10 critiques
Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession (2015) — Contributeur — 144 exemplaires, 34 critiques
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contributeur — 144 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contributeur — 134 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Barbie Chronicles: A Living Doll Turns Forty (1999) — Contributeur — 106 exemplaires, 1 critique
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Contributeur — 88 exemplaires, 4 critiques
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers (2014) — Contributeur — 74 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributeur — 73 exemplaires
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contributeur — 68 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Marta Oulie: A Novel of Betrayal (1907) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 57 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Listen to Their Voices: Twenty Interviews With Women Who Write (1993) — Contributeur — 51 exemplaires
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond (2021) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires, 2 critiques
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contributeur — 18 exemplaires
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contributeur — 5 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Smiley, Jane
- Nom légal
- Smiley, Jane Graves
- Date de naissance
- 1949-09-26
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
Iceland - Études
- Vassar College (B.A.|1971)
University of Iowa (M.A.|1975|M.F.A.|1976)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1978)
John Burroughs School - Professions
- novelist
professor - Organisations
- University of California, Riverside
Iowa State University - Prix et distinctions
- 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)
Membres
Discussions
What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned à Banned Books (Février 21)
Jane Smiley: American Author Challenge à 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Avril 2016)
June 2011 Read: Private Life à Missouri Readers (Juin 2011)
Critiques
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Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 50
- Aussi par
- 41
- Membres
- 23,678
- Popularité
- #884
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 705
- ISBN
- 583
- Langues
- 13
- Favoris
- 63