

Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O. From 1981 to 1996, she taught at Iowa State University. While working towards her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. 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. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.


Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St. Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist.
