| Jane Smiley  Born: 26-Sep-1949
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 2001
John Kerry for President
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1992 for A Thousand Acres
Author of books:
Barn Blind (1980, novel)
At Paradise Gate (1981, novel)
Duplicate Keys (1984, novel)
The Age of Grief (1992, short stories)
The Greenlanders (1988, novel)
Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989, novel)
A Thousand Acres (1991, novel)
Moo (1995, novel)
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998, novel)
Horse Heaven (2000, novel)
Good Faith (2003, novel)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005, nonfiction)
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