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  Date / Time: 8/30/2009 5:48 PM UTC

  WordSmitten :: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley
  

   Kate Sullivan interviews Jane Smiley, awarded the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for "A Thousand Acres," is the author of ten works of fiction, including The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, and Moo. Her essays appeared in Vogue, The New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times travel section, Victoria, Mirabella, Allure, and The Nation. She is also the author, from Crown, of a book on craftspeople living in the Catskills. Her novel "Horse Heaven" was published in April 2000. She is at work on a novel about sex set in Hollywood. She lives in California with her three children, three dogs, and her sixteen (and counting) horses. Born in Los Angeles, California, Jane moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, as an infant, and lived there through grammar school and high school (The John Burroughs School). After getting her BA at Vassar College in 1971, she traveled in Europe for a year, working on an archeological dig and sight-seeing, then returned to Iowa for graduate school at the University of Iowa. 
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