Louis, and graduated from John Burroughs School. Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.īorn in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Jane Smiley is the author of numerous works of fiction, including The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love & Good Will, A Thousand Acres (for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize), and Moo. Awards-Pulitzer Prize, 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award, 1991.Education-B.A., Vassar College M.A., M.F.A, and Ph.D., Iowa University."While she has written beautifully about families in all of her seven preceding books, effort is her best: a family portrait that is also a near-epic investigation into the broad landscape, the thousand dark acres, of the human heart. A classic story of contemporary American life, A Thousand Acres strikes at the very heart of what it means to be a father, a daughter, a family. For Ginny and Rose, who live on the farm with their husbands, the gift makes sense-a reward for years of hard work, a challenge to make the farm even more successful.īut the youngest, Caroline, a Des Moines lawyer, flatly rejects the idea, and in anger her father cuts her out-setting off an explosive series of events that will leave none of them unchanged. When Larry Cook, the aging patriarch of a rich, thriving farm in Iowa, decides to retire, he offers his land to his three daughters. Winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award
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