Smiley, Jane (Graves)
SMILEY, Jane (Graves)
SMILEY, Jane (Graves). American, b. 1949. Genres: Novels, Crafts. Career: Iowa State University, Ames, instructor in English, 1981-. Publications: Barn Blind, 1980; At Paradise Gate, 1981; Duplicate Keys, 1984; The Age of Grief, 1987; Catskill Crafts: Artisans of the Catskill Mountains, 1988; The Greenlanders, 1988; Ordinary Love and Good Will, 1989; A Thousand Acres, 1991 (Pulitzer Prize for Literature 1992); Moo: A Novel, 1995; The All-True Travels and Adventures of Liddie Newton, 1998; Horse Heaven, 2000; Pacific Light, 2000; Charles Dickens, 2002; Good Faith (novel), 2003. Address: Random House Inc, c/o Knopf Publicity, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, U.S.A.
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