Jane Smiley
Autor(a) de A Thousand Acres
About the Author
Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1949. She received a B. A. from Vassar College in 1971 and an M.F.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops at Iowa State University. Her books mostrar mais include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Moo, Horse Heaven, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Some Luck, and Early Warning. In 1985, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story Lily, which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. A Thousand Acres received both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Jane Smiley
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer (2010) 177 exemplares
Great American Short Stories (Barnes & Noble Signature Editions) (2012) — Introdução — 111 exemplares
Lucky 4 exemplares
Lucky 3 exemplares
Early Warning (Last Hundred Years Trilogy 2) by Jane Smiley (7-May-2015) Hardcover (1600) 1 exemplar
Mood of Christmas 1 exemplar
The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley 1 exemplar
The Saga of Icelanders 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1884) — Contribuidor — 1,366 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introdução — 376 exemplares
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contribuidor — 186 exemplares
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Introdução — 183 exemplares
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor; Introdução — 182 exemplares
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contribuidor — 175 exemplares
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 132 exemplares
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past (and Each Other) (2001) — Contribuidor — 131 exemplares
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
Who’s Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuidor — 73 exemplares
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contribuidor — 65 exemplares
Listen to Their Voices: Twenty Interviews With Women Who Write (1993) — Contribuidor — 49 exemplares
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond (2021) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contribuidor — 17 exemplares
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Smiley, Jane
- Nome legal
- Smiley, Jane Graves
- Data de nascimento
- 1949-09-26
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Locais de residência
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
Iceland - Educação
- Vassar College (B.A.|1971)
University of Iowa (M.A.|1975|M.F.A.|1976)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1978)
John Burroughs School - Ocupações
- novelist
professor - Organizações
- University of California, Riverside
Iowa State University - Prémios e menções honrosas
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1997)
Fulbright scholarship
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2006)
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1992)
O. Henry Award (1985)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001) (mostrar todos 9)
National Book Critics Circle Award (1992)
Spur Award for Best Novel of the West (1999)
PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature (2006) - Agente
- Molly Friedrich (Aaron Priest Literary Agency)
Membros
Discussions
Jane Smiley: American Author Challenge em 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Abril 2016)
June 2011 Read: Private Life em Missouri Readers (Junho 2011)
Críticas
I'm not sure the title is accurate; however, this short book of essays is both enchanting and serious. Smiley holds the podium effectively, with subjects as varied as an appreciation of St. Louis; the joy of growing up on a farm; abiding admiration of Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope; Huck Finn vs Uncle Tom's Cabin; the role of mothers as both authors and subjects of literature; Willa Cather and her classic My Antonia; and the joy of reading Jessica and Nancy Mitford despite knowledge of their family history of Nazi involvement. My favorite chapter states a strong defense of Amy March as the most feminist character in Little Women, beating out the universally beloved Jo. Everyone who loves, loves, loves the Louisa May Alcott classic will be pleased to take sides!
Quotes: "There were writers then who frightened me, who liked to say, you'll never be a writer if you (fill in the blank) or if you don't (fill in the blank)."
"White Americans always think racism is a feeling, and they reject it or they embrace it. To most Americans, it seems more honorable and nicer to reject it, so they do, but they almost invariably fail to understand that how they feel means very little to Black Americans, who understand racism as a way of structuring American culture, American politics, and the American economy."
"The essence of the novel is the tension between wanting to linger in appreciation of an individual line and wanting to see what happens next."… (mais)
Quotes: "There were writers then who frightened me, who liked to say, you'll never be a writer if you (fill in the blank) or if you don't (fill in the blank)."
"White Americans always think racism is a feeling, and they reject it or they embrace it. To most Americans, it seems more honorable and nicer to reject it, so they do, but they almost invariably fail to understand that how they feel means very little to Black Americans, who understand racism as a way of structuring American culture, American politics, and the American economy."
"The essence of the novel is the tension between wanting to linger in appreciation of an individual line and wanting to see what happens next."… (mais)
This was a fun book. I love the way Jane Smiley writes about animals, she is able to get inside how they might view things. This book is more fanciful. She's ascribing human kinds of thought to them while retaining the essence of each species. The interplay of their points of view was fun and full of humor and her descriptions of the personalities and squabbles, especially among the birds, was hilarious.
A promising premise for sure. Gold Rush California and a widowed prostitute, Eliza, and her friend decide to find out who is murdering women after being inspired by the works of E.A. Poe.
Should be interesting, right? Nope. Boring.
The whole novel spins in this average routine: Eliza takes in a gentlemen at the brothel, describes the event, then goes and finds a dead body with her friend in the woods. Eliza talks about mud and footprints a lot, follows some people around, takes in another gentleman at the brothel, describes prick and maybe they are a suspect. Then she eats food and walks around some more. No tension, no air of mystery, or feeling they are in danger. I feel like this could have been a short story but Smiley and her publisher wanted it blow up to fulfill some sort of contractual obligation.
Bloated and tedious.… (mais)
Should be interesting, right? Nope. Boring.
The whole novel spins in this average routine: Eliza takes in a gentlemen at the brothel, describes the event, then goes and finds a dead body with her friend in the woods. Eliza talks about mud and footprints a lot, follows some people around, takes in another gentleman at the brothel, describes prick and maybe they are a suspect. Then she eats food and walks around some more. No tension, no air of mystery, or feeling they are in danger. I feel like this could have been a short story but Smiley and her publisher wanted it blow up to fulfill some sort of contractual obligation.
Bloated and tedious.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 52
- Also by
- 39
- Membros
- 22,737
- Popularidade
- #932
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 679
- ISBN
- 570
- Línguas
- 13
- Marcado como favorito
- 63
Plus, as a child of Iowa and Kansas with big opinions about how the agricultural communities were screwed and screwed themselves, it was compelling to see if play out in this story. It made me feel more connected to my ancestors, and more melancholy for the life they knew and lost.
Trilogy completion check-in: it's good. Read on.… (mais)