| Jane Smiley  Born: 26-Sep-1949
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A Thousand Acres Husband: John Whiston (m. 1970, div. 1975)
Husband: William Silag (m. 1978, div. 1986, two daughters)
Daughter: Phoebe Silag (b. 1978)
Daughter: Lucy Silag (b. 1982)
Husband: Stephen M. Mortensen (m. 1987, div. 1997, one son)
Son: AJ Mortensen (b. 1992)
High School: John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO
University: BA, Vassar College (1971)
University: MFA, University of Iowa
University: PhD, University of Iowa
Professor: Iowa State University (1981-96)
America Coming Together
American Academy of Arts and Letters 2001
John Edwards for President
John Kerry for President
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1992 for A Thousand Acres
Author of books:
Barn Blind (1980, novel)
At Paradise Gate (1981, novel)
Duplicate Keys (1984, novel)
The Age of Grief (1992, short stories)
The Greenlanders (1988, novel)
Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989, novel)
A Thousand Acres (1991, novel)
Moo (1995, novel)
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998, novel)
Horse Heaven (2000, novel)
Good Faith (2003, novel)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005, nonfiction)
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff (2010, biography)
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