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American novelist (born 1949)
Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). Born
Jane_Smiley
2007 American film
Hoffman, Jane Lynch, John Krasinski, Marion Ross, Michael Hitchcock, John Cho, Danny Trejo, and Roscoe Lee Browne in his final film appearance. Smiley Face
Smiley_Face_(film)
1997 American film
an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Jane Smiley, which itself is a reworking of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The
A_Thousand_Acres_(film)
2002 American film
was written by Craig Lucas, based on the novella The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley. It had its world premiere at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival
The_Secret_Lives_of_Dentists
Biography by Jane Smiley
Man Who Invented the Computer is a 2010 historical biography by author Jane Smiley about American physicist John Vincent Atanasoff and the invention of
The Man Who Invented the Computer
The_Man_Who_Invented_the_Computer
American mathematician (1922–2018)
Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon (July 17, 1922 – June 19, 2018) was an American mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at Rutgers University
Jane_Cronin_Scanlon
2022 novel by Jane Smiley
Business is a 2022 novel by American author Jane Smiley. The novel is a mystery set in California. Smiley read about the history of Monterey, California
A_Dangerous_Business
2020 novel by Jane Smiley
Perestroika in Paris is a 2020 novel written by Jane Smiley. Sam Sacks, in a review published by the Wall Street Journal, praised the novel as a successful
Perestroika_in_Paris
1988 novel by Jane Smiley
Greenlanders is a 1988 historical-fiction epic novel by American author Jane Smiley. The novel gives a speculative account of the Norse inhabitation of Greenland
The_Greenlanders
Topics referred to by the same term
Unix and Multics Moo.fx, a JavaScript effects library Moo (novel), by Jane Smiley Moo, working title of Thug Life (2025 film), an Indian film by Mani Ratnam
Moo
Talk show host and author (born 1964)
(BET). After Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew his contract that year. Smiley then began
Tavis_Smiley
1991 novel by Jane Smiley
A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley. It won the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the 1992 Pulitzer Prize
A_Thousand_Acres
Book by Jane Smiley
Some Luck is a 2014 novel by Jane Smiley. It is the first in a trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of generations. It was longlisted
Some_Luck
2000 novel by Jane Smiley
novel by American author Jane Smiley, published in 2000 by Knopf. It was shortlisted for the 2001 Women's Prize for Fiction. Smiley, a lover of horses since
Horse_Heaven_(novel)
Stylized image of a smiling face
A smiley, also known as a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a smiling face. Since the 1950s, it has become part of popular culture worldwide
Smiley
American Journalist, editor, and media executive
President of Smithsonian where he added authors including Jane Goodall, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jane Smiley, Isabel Wilkerson, and Billy Collins. Caruso is credited
Michael_Caruso_(editor)
Name list
and spirit medium Jane Rose (1880–1927), Yiddish dramatist and theater activist Jane Smiley (born 1949), American novelist Jane Agnes Stewart (1860–1944)
Jane_(given_name)
2022 novel by Hernan Diaz
debunk American myths". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 26, 2023. Hu, Jane (May 26, 2022). "We Tell Ourselves Stories About Money to Live". The Atlantic
Trust_(novel)
International literary award
body of work. Judge Jane Smiley said picking a winner had been "a challenge", but Munro had won the panel over. On Munro's work, Smiley said "Her work is
International_Booker_Prize
1995 short story collection
was edited by Katrina Kennison and by guest editor Jane Smiley. Kennison, Katrina and Smiley, Jane (editors), The Best American Short Stories 1995, New
The Best American Short Stories 1995
The_Best_American_Short_Stories_1995
Women's fashion magazine (1935–2001)
James Baldwin, Flannery O'Connor, Sylvia Plath, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Jane Smiley, Mary Gordon, Paul Theroux, Sue Miller, Barbara Kingsolver, Perri
Mademoiselle_(magazine)
2008 novel by Elizabeth Strout
Jane and falls asleep. Bob awakes with a startle and Jane asks him if he was dreaming. Bob tells Jane he dreamt the concert hall roof fell in. Jane comforts
Olive_Kitteridge
Annual American literary award
Retrieved January 24, 2022. "Awards: NBCC; Chicago Trib YA; New England; Jane Grigson". Shelf Awareness. March 18, 2016. Archived from the original on
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
National_Book_Critics_Circle_Award_for_Fiction
American novelist
Hope (2017), which include essays by such writers as Junot Díaz and Jane Smiley. They are also well known for their translation work, frequently translating
Caro_De_Robertis
Canadian-American-Israeli playwright and screenwriter
Iowa State University where he taught architecture and studied with Jane Smiley. Beginning in 2007, he held the position of Interim Artistic Director
Oren_Safdie
Literary award
Alice Munro, Dionne Brand, Jane Urquhart, Charlotte Gray, Margaret Atwood, Marie-Claire Blais, Natasha Trethewey, Jane Smiley, Francine Prose and Erica
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Carol_Shields_Prize_for_Fiction
American actor and filmmaker (born 1960)
Retrieved July 9, 2018. French, Agatha (April 3, 2018). "Sean Penn and Jane Smiley weren't drinking the 'Bob Honey' haterade on stage in L.A." Los Angeles
Sean_Penn
Fictional serial killer
found murdered, with Red John's smiley face painted in blood on one of the walls near his body. Panzer's murder proves Jane's theory that Red John is still
Red_John
Museum in Iowa County, Wisconsin, US
later to further a myth that he had personally built the house himself. Jane Smiley wrote this about the complex in 1993: Though most people outside of the
House_on_the_Rock
Iranian-American writer and professor
com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved March 5, 2022. Smiley, Jane; Smiley, Jane (October 20, 2014). "A celebration of American fiction from the
Azar_Nafisi
Book by Jane Smiley
Moo is a 1995 novel by Jane Smiley. Its setting is a large university, known familiarly as "Moo U" because of its large agricultural college, in the American
Moo_(novel)
Number of words in a document or passage of text
processor. Novelist Jane Smiley suggests that length is an important quality of the novel. However, novels can vary tremendously in length; Smiley lists novels
Word_count
American award for distinguished novels
shortlisted Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy and The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines and suggested Death of the Fox by George Garrett
Pulitzer_Prize_for_Fiction
2010 novel by Jaimy Gordon
distinctive style and control of language. In The Washington Post, reviewer Jane Smiley wrote that "Gordon has completely mastered the language of the racetrack
Lord_of_Misrule_(novel)
2013 novel by Donna Tartt
Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992) A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (1993)
The_Goldfinch_(novel)
Argentine and American writer (born 1973)
Hijuelos (1990) Rabbit at Rest by John Updike (1991) A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (1992) A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler (1993)
Hernan_Diaz_(writer)
American computer pioneer (1903–1995)
Computing. 23 (2): 51–67. doi:10.1109/MAHC.2001.10002. ISSN 1058-6180. Smiley, Jane (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff
John_Vincent_Atanasoff
Area of coastal Canada explored by Norse Vikings
et al. (2012) Falling into Vínland. Acta Archeologica 83, pp. 145-177 Jane Smiley, "The Sagas of the Greenlanders and The Saga of Eirik the Red" in The
Vinland
Scottish aristocrat (1939–2010)
Miranda Daphne Jane Guinness, Countess of Iveagh (née Smiley; 19 August 1939[citation needed] – 30 December 2010) was a Scottish aristocrat who married
Miranda Guinness, Countess of Iveagh
Miranda_Guinness,_Countess_of_Iveagh
1835 romanticized historical novella by Nikolai Gogol
the 1974 Australian Derby and won $335,000 in prize money. The 2007 Jane Smiley book Ten Days in the Hills features a film producer trying to film a
Taras_Bulba
Canadian actress
dozens of audio books – titles including works by Margaret Atwood and Jane Smiley. She played "Rita King" for the first six series of the Children's ITV
Shelley_Thompson
Literary genre
by Richard Powers (1995) Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon (1995) Moo by Jane Smiley (1995) Death Is Now My Neighbour (The Morse Series) by Colin Dexter (1996)
Campus_novel
1971 novel by John Gardner
an old and blind Scylding priest. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley suggests that Gardner uses Grendel as a metaphor for the necessity for
Grendel_(novel)
Academic journal
writers who have contributed to this journal include Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, Pushcart Prize winner Ira Sadoff and PEN/Hemingway Award recipient Jennifer
The_Alaska_Quarterly_Review
Literary publication
Writing" featured works by: Amy Hempel, Tom Spanbauer, Matthew Levine, Jane Smiley, Jack Gilbert, Harold Brodkey, Patty Marx and others. Volume 2 of The
The_Quarterly
Surname list
Smiley, (born 1956), American map thief Gordon Smiley (1946–1982), American race car driver Jane Smiley (born 1949), American author Janelle Smiley (born
Smiley_(surname)
American author
Wrangler Award for Sacred Paint "A quintessential American voice" - Jane Smiley, Vogue Spur Award for Best Western Novel, 2003 Spur Award for Best Western
Sandra_Dallas
Private college in Poughkeepsie, New York, US
on PBS Meryl Streep (1971), three-time Academy Award-winning actress Jane Smiley (1971), Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer Paula Williams Madison
Vassar_College
Novel by Barbara Kingsolver
this one is laced with genial humor. Writing in the New York Times, Jane Smiley has some reservations about the novel: "Ms. Kingsolver has chosen to
Animal_Dreams
Character in Icelandic sagas
People of Laxardal." In The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection, edited by Jane Smiley, 270–421. New York: Penguin, 2005. “Laxdœla saga.” in Laxdœla Saga, edited
Jorunn_Bjarnadottir
2024 novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Washington Post described it as "pure magic". The Los Angeles Times' Jane Smiley described the novel as "earthy" and a "thought-provoking and readable
The_Waters_(novel)
Australian film director
Acres in 1997, an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Jane Smiley. The film is about the relationship between a father and three daughters
Jocelyn_Moorhouse
Novel by Jilly Cooper
elderly people. The novel has been compared to A Year at the Races by Jane Smiley, which focuses on racing culture in Kentucky, USA. In the novel Cooper
Jump!_(novel)
Shaping of a text's meaning by another text in literary studies
Shakespeare's Hamlet, set in modern England. A Thousand Acres (1991) by Jane Smiley: A retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear, set in rural Iowa. Perelandra
Intertextuality
MFA degree granting program since 1936
1979 Pulitzer for The Stories of John Cheever, former faculty member. Jane Smiley, 1992 Pulitzer for A Thousand Acres, MA, 1975; MFA, English, 1976; PhD
Iowa_Writers'_Workshop
American historian, writer, and environmentalist
troubled relationship with the newspaper itself. Over 100 readers including Jane Smiley offered comments on the subject. In recognition of Stegner's legacy at
Wallace_Stegner
City in Iowa, US
1947 Lincoln Peirce, cartoonist/writer of the Big Nate comics and books Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist; former instructor at ISU (1981–1996);
Ames,_Iowa
Television series episodes
Past" Kenneth Fink Story by : Henry Bromell & Julie Martin Teleplay by : Jane Smiley April 14, 1995 (1995-04-14) 318 11.1 32 19 "Colors" Peter Medak Tom Fontana
List of Homicide: Life on the Street episodes
List_of_Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street_episodes
Magazine of literary reviews
Damasio, Jonathan Kirsch, Chris Kraus, Jonathan Lethem, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jane Smiley, David Shields, Greil Marcus, Jaron Lanier and Jerry Stahl. Werris, Wendy
Los_Angeles_Review_of_Books
2011 studio album by Wilco
"Rising Red Lung" "Whole Love" Side D "One Sunday Morning (Song for Jane Smiley's Boyfriend)" "Sometimes It Happens" (Patten/Westbrook) Nels Cline – electric
The_Whole_Love
Private school in Ladue, Missouri, United States; founded 1923
Tolls (1940) to her Vicki Goldberg, 1954: novelist and photographer Jane Smiley, 1967: Pulitzer Prize-winning (1992) novelist, A Thousand Acres Mary
John_Burroughs_School
Annual literary prize for fiction and nonfiction books about heartland American
the Bardo 2017: Colson Whitehead for The Underground Railroad 2016: Jane Smiley for Golden Age 2015: Chang-Rae Lee for On Such a Full Sea 2014: Daniel
Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize
Chicago_Tribune_Heartland_Prize
Play by William Shakespeare
Ran. In 1997, Jocelyn Moorhouse directed A Thousand Acres, based on Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, set in 1990s Iowa. The
King_Lear
Winners and shortlists for UK literary prize
Retrieved 12 December 2011.[dead link](subscription required) Shilling, Jane (17 May 2009). "The Winter Vault By Anne Michaels: review". The Daily Telegraph
List of Women's Prize for Fiction winners
List_of_Women's_Prize_for_Fiction_winners
German computer scientist and engineer (1910–1995)
Archived from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 4 February 2021. Jane Smiley (2010). The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff
Konrad_Zuse
American monthly magazine
Miranda July David Samuels Herman George Scheffauer Isaac Bashevis Singer Jane Smiley Zadie Smith Rebecca Solnit Terry Southern John Steinbeck Henry L. Stimson
Harper's_Magazine
American publishing house
Revolution Gordon S. Wood 1992 Pulitzer Prize Fiction A Thousand Acres Jane Smiley 1991 Pulitzer Prize History A Midwife's Tale Laurel Thatcher Ulrich 1991
Alfred_A._Knopf
American writer and venture capitalist
review for The Guardian, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction–winning novelist Jane Smiley praised Gibney's "wry, amusing style", noting that "he is at his best
Bruce_Gibney
2010 novella by Joyce Carol Oates
something of a darker nature. Reviewing the book for The Washington Post, Jane Smiley compared Oates' prolific production to a large museum, and described
A_Fair_Maiden
Topics referred to by the same term
(payment service) Early-warning radar Early Warning (novel), a book by Jane Smiley All pages with titles beginning with Early warning All pages with titles
Early warning (disambiguation)
Early_warning_(disambiguation)
Award
Orange 2021: Conjure Women by Afia Atakora 2023: A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction (formerly
Society of American Historians Prize for Historical Fiction
Society_of_American_Historians_Prize_for_Historical_Fiction
American author and film director (born 1952)
original on April 25, 2022. Retrieved December 15, 2022. Smiley, Jane (July 8, 2011). "Jane Smiley reviews Frank Schaeffer's 'Sex, Mom, and God'". The Washington
Frank_Schaeffer
American author and domestic violence advocate
by a range of at-home and working mothers such as Jane Smiley, Susan Cheever, Carolyn Hax and Jane Juska generated extensive media interest and controversy
Leslie_Morgan_Steiner
Charles Dickens's racism
to Brantlinger, Dickens viewed them as a "racially repellent" group. Jane Smiley, in her Penguin Lives biography of Dickens, writes "we should not interpret
Racism in the work of Charles Dickens
Racism_in_the_work_of_Charles_Dickens
Alexander) Goat Song by Frank Yerby (Peloponnesian War) The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley Lydia Bailey by Kenneth Roberts (1800s Haitian Revolution) The Kingdom
List_of_historical_novels
Simon Neil Simon Clive Sinclair Upton Sinclair Isaac Bashevis Singer Jane Smiley Luella Dowd Smith Wilbur Smith Louise Hammond Willis Snead C. P. Snow
List_of_20th-century_writers
Radio show
Runner (27 May 2008) p Sebastian Faulks – Birdsong (29 April 2008) p Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres (25 March 2008) p Patricia Cornwell – Postmortem (26
World_Book_Club
Annual literary prize
Wang and Martha Avery Baotown Finalist Alice Munro Friend of My Youth Jane Smiley Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas Thea Astley Reaching Tin River
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction
Los_Angeles_Times_Book_Prize_for_Fiction
American educational grant program
playwright Mahi R. Singh, physics professor at University of Western Ontario Jane Smiley, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Javier Solana, Foreign Affairs
Fulbright_Program
Aloff, class of 1969 – editor, journalist, essayist, and dance critic Jane Smiley, class of 1971 – novelist Esther Friesner, class of 1972 – science fiction
List_of_Vassar_College_people
Irish businessman and politician (1937–1992)
debilitating decline." Lord Iveagh married Miranda Daphne Jane Smiley, daughter of Major Michael Smiley, of Castle Fraser, Kemnay, Aberdeenshire, on 12 March
Benjamin Guinness, 3rd Earl of Iveagh
Benjamin_Guinness,_3rd_Earl_of_Iveagh
American screenwriter and actress (1936–2016)
not produced but had been active in Hollywood were scripts based on Jane Smiley’s book Barn Blind, Michael Frayn's Headlong, and Jill Paton Walsh's Knowledge
Barbara_Turner_(screenwriter)
American actress (born 1949)
year, she starred opposite Michelle Pfeiffer in a film adaptation of Jane Smiley's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres. Lange received her ninth
Jessica_Lange
Annual award for exceptional short stories
Rosa The New Yorker, March 21, 1983 1985 Stuart Dybek Hot Ice Antaeus Jane Smiley Lily The Atlantic Monthly 1986 Alice Walker Kindred Spirits Esquire,
O._Henry_Award
Season of television series
Past" Kenneth Fink Story by : Henry Bromell & Julie Martin Teleplay by : Jane Smiley April 14, 1995 (1995-04-14) 318 11.1 A desperate young woman takes Colonel
Homicide: Life on the Street season 3
Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street_season_3
Icelandic saga
encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. New York, NY: Garland. ISBN 978-0-8240-4787-0. Jane Smiley (2001) The Sagas of the Icelanders (Penguin Classics) ISBN 978-0141000039
Vatnsdæla_saga
City in Missouri, United States
Schlatter (born 1929), American television comedy producer and director Jane Smiley (born 1949), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Phoebe Snetsinger (1931–1999)
Webster_Groves,_Missouri
14th-century Icelandic saga
"The Saga of Ref the Sly." The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection. By Jane Smiley. New York: Viking, 2000. 595-625. Print. Short, William R. "Hurstwic:
Króka-Refs_saga
Awards for journalism and related fields
21-year-olds across the United States. Fiction: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (Alfred A. Knopf) History: The Fate of Liberty: Abraham Lincoln and Civil
1992_Pulitzer_Prize
2016 novel by Anne Tyler
and because it offers her a way out of her constrained circumstances. Jane Smiley reviewed the book for The New York Times. She said "Tyler’s signature
Vinegar_Girl
Short story collections
Adams 1992: Robert Stone 1993: Louise Erdrich 1994: Tobias Wolff 1995: Jane Smiley 1996: John Edgar Wideman 1997: Annie Proulx 1998: Garrison Keillor 1999:
The Best American Short Stories
The_Best_American_Short_Stories
Notable people from St. Louis City and County, Missouri
conductor, Grammy Award winner Slayyyter (born 1996), pop musician Jane Smiley (born 1949), Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Smino (born 1991), real
List_of_people_from_St._Louis
First blind U.S. Army officer
Scott "Scotty" Smiley is a retired U.S. Army Major and United States Military Academy graduate. He was the U.S. Army's first blind active duty officer
Scott_Smiley
2021, Sonnenfeld was set to direct the 2D animated film adaptation of Jane Smiley’s book Perestroika in Paris, with Frank Marshall producing. Variety Staff
Barry Sonnenfeld's unrealized projects
Barry_Sonnenfeld's_unrealized_projects
American writer (born 1934)
The Quarterly introduced such authors as J. E. Pitts, Jason Schwartz, Jane Smiley, Mark Richard, Bruce Holland Rogers, and Jennifer Allen. By the time
Gordon_Lish
Canadian artist
Smith, Jane (2024-10-17). "Artist Matt Smiley's New Exhibit Is a '90s Ode to 'Love' and 'Nostalgia'". Newsweek. Retrieved 2025-02-04. "Matt Smiley Unveils
Matt_Smiley
Topics referred to by the same term
and Benton counties in Washington State, US Horse Heaven, a novel by Jane Smiley Horse Haven, California This disambiguation page lists articles associated
Horse_Heaven
1849–1850 novel by Charles Dickens
(May 2002). "Dickens Our Contemporary, review of 'Charles Dickens' by Jane Smiley". The Atlantic. Retrieved 25 July 2012. Gredina, Irina; Allingham, Philip
David_Copperfield
Day of the year
Wendy Saddington, Australian singer and journalist (died 2013) 1949 – Jane Smiley, American novelist 1949 – Minette Walters, English journalist and author
September_26
Alleged Norse sorcerer who was burned in Greenland for sorcery and adultery
and his witch trial are fictionalized in the novel The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley. Seaver, Kirsten A., The Frozen Echo: Greenland and the Exploration of
Kolgrim
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