Author

Books by Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley is an American novelist born in Los Angeles in 1949 and raised in the Midwest. She is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including the novels The Greenlanders (1988), Moo (1995), Horse Heaven (2000), and the Last Hundred Years trilogy (2014–2015). A Thousand Acres (1991) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and taught for many years at Iowa State University.