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Jane Smiley

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in Los Angeles, California, The United States

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Literature & Fiction, Short Stories, Nonfiction

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Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. She obtained a A.B. at Vassar College, then earned a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. From 1981 to 1996, she taught at Iowa State University. Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. ...more

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LETTERS TO THE FUTURE: I Didn't Try to Save You as Hard as My Opponents Tried to Destroy You

When I was alive, I thought I was trying to save you, but I didn't try hard enough, or at least, I didn't try to save you as hard as my opponents tried to destroy you. I don't know why they did that. I could never figure that out.

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Average rating: 3.72 · 189,832 ratings · 20,362 reviews · 131 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Thousand Acres 3.82 avg rating — 71,816 ratings — published 1991 — 123 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some Luck (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #1) 3.63 avg rating — 20,535 ratings — published 2014 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perestroika in Paris 3.99 avg rating — 10,076 ratings — published 2020 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Early Warning (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga, #2) 3.85 avg rating — 7,736 ratings — published 2015 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moo by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author), Isabelle Reinharez (Translator) 3.47 avg rating — 8,531 ratings — published 1995 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Dangerous Business 3.17 avg rating — 8,743 ratings — published 2022 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horse Heaven 3.89 avg rating — 5,456 ratings — published 1999 — 54 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golden Age (Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga #3) 3.80 avg rating — 4,802 ratings — published 2015 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert H. Kellogg (Introduction), Katrina C. Attwood (Contributor) 4.31 avg rating — 4,195 ratings — published 1997 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Grief 3.72 avg rating — 3,679 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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2nd Quarter 2022 Group Long Read

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949, 746 pages

43 votes, 25.1%

The World According to Garp by John Irving, 1978, 610 pages

42 votes, 24.6%

The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962, 640 pages

22 votes, 12.9%

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu, 1001, 1182 pages

18 votes, 10.5%

The Betrothed by Alessandro Manzoni, 1827, 720 pages

17 votes, 9.9%

The Sagas of Icelanders by Jane Smiley, 1200, 782 pages

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Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherfurd, 1987, 912 pages

12 votes, 7.0%

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