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). Read full biography of Jane Smiley →
'Ape House' is an ambitious novel in several ways, for which it is to be admired, and it is certainly an easy read, but because Gruen is not... →
I have reared, or helped to rear, five children and the scariest bit, bar none, is the learning-to-drive part. It has filled me with anxiety not only... →
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about... →
If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has... →
It once amused me that it took me three tries to pass my driver's test and that my driving instructor told my mother that I was the least... →
Literature - novels, plays, and poems - can have an uncanny dual life, where they simultaneously represent something eternal and something... →
Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to... →
Some novelists are luckier than others in the eras of their formative intellectual years, but all Weltanschauungs return, which means that most... →
Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in... →
With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just... →
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).