Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists. In 1995 she wrote her sole television script produced, for an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1997. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. From 1981 to 1996, she taught at Iowa State University. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School.
Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.īorn in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St.
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