Jane Smiley

American · b. 1949

2 award wins

Award History

Award	Year	Book	Status
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction	1992	A Thousand Acres	Winner
National Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)	1991	A Thousand Acres	Winner

Award-Winning Books

Winner
A Thousand Acres
Jane SmileyNational Book Critics Circle Award (Fiction)

About Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres (1991), a modern retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear set on an Iowa farm, as well as other notable works like The Greenlanders and the Last Hundred Years Trilogy. Pulitzer.org. She has also received the O. Henry Award, PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award, and Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature.