Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels including The Age of Grief and A Thousand Acres, which won the Pulitzer prize in 1992, as well as many essays for such magazines as Vogue, the New Yorker, Harper’s, Elle, the New York Times Magazine, and Playboy. She is also the author of the nonfiction books A Year at the Races and Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Novel. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2006, she received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She lives in Northern California.