Jane Smiley
Autor de Heredarás la tierra
Sobre El Autor
Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California on September 26, 1949. She received a B. A. from Vassar College in 1971 and an M.F.A. and a Ph.D from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops at Iowa State University. Her books mostrar más include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Moo, Horse Heaven, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Some Luck, and Early Warning. In 1985, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story Lily, which was published in The Atlantic Monthly. A Thousand Acres received both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Series
Obras de Jane Smiley
A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck (2004) 211 copias, 4 reseñas
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer (2010) 189 copias, 7 reseñas
The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom (2023) 23 copias, 2 reseñas
La edad de la aflicción 2 copias
The Sagas of Icelanders: A Selection 2 copias
Un métier dangereux 1 copia
The Saga of Icelanders 1 copia
Mood of Christmas 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.] (1884) — Contribuidor — 1,535 copias, 8 reseñas
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Contribuidor — 1,141 copias, 3 reseñas
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contribuidor — 450 copias, 4 reseñas
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Introducción — 381 copias, 3 reseñas
Poison Penmanship: The Gentle Art of Muckraking (1979) — Preface, algunas ediciones — 356 copias, 3 reseñas
The Workshop: Seven Decades of the Iowa Writers Workshop - 43 Stories, Recollections, & Essays on Iowa's Place in… (1999) — Contribuidor — 188 copias, 1 reseña
Writers on Writing, 2: More Collected Essays from the New York Times (2003) — Introducción — 187 copias, 3 reseñas
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Contribuidor; Introducción — 184 copias, 1 reseña
Why We Write: 20 Acclaimed Authors on How and Why They Do What They Do (2013) — Contribuidor — 184 copias, 10 reseñas
Light the Dark: Writers on Creativity, Inspiration, and the Artistic Process (2017) — Contribuidor — 143 copias, 4 reseñas
Me, My Hair, and I: Twenty-seven Women Untangle an Obsession (2015) — Contribuidor — 142 copias, 34 reseñas
Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America's Past and Each Other (2001) — Contribuidor — 134 copias, 1 reseña
Living with Shakespeare: Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors (2013) — Contribuidor — 88 copias, 4 reseñas
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers (2014) — Contribuidor — 73 copias, 4 reseñas
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contribuidor — 72 copias
Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (2009) — Contribuidor — 67 copias, 2 reseñas
Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond (2021) — Contribuidor — 21 copias, 2 reseñas
The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes (2016) — Contribuidor — 18 copias
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Smiley, Jane
- Nombre legal
- Smiley, Jane Graves
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1949-09-26
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Los Angeles, California, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Los Angeles, California, USA
Webster Groves, Missouri, USA
Iceland - Educación
- Vassar College (B.A.|1971)
University of Iowa (M.A.|1975|M.F.A.|1976)
University of Iowa (Ph.D|1978)
John Burroughs School - Ocupaciones
- novelist
professor - Organizaciones
- University of California, Riverside
Iowa State University - Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award (1997)
Fulbright scholarship
F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Fiction (2006)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (2001)
PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature (2006)
Robert Kirsch Award (2023) - Agente
- Molly Friedrich (Aaron Priest Literary Agency)
Miembros
Debates
What It’s Like to Have Your Book Banned en Banned Books (Febrero 21)
Jane Smiley: American Author Challenge en 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (abril 2016)
June 2011 Read: Private Life en Missouri Readers (junio 2011)
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Tour of Iowa (1)
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Witch Hunts (1)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 54
- También por
- 41
- Miembros
- 23,557
- Popularidad
- #892
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 702
- ISBNs
- 583
- Idiomas
- 13
- Favorito
- 63
En Un amor cualquiera, Jane Smiley retoma el universo de las relaciones familiares, centrándose esta vez en el miedo que sentimos a herir de forma irreparable, con nuestras decisiones más íntimas, a aquellos a quienes más amamos. En una narración que se despliega como una espiral de revelaciones emocionales que Rachel va desgranando a lo largo de un fin de semana, Smiley nos muestra las formas en que se desarrollan los amores comunes y corrientes, aquellos que vivimos todos los días, y con exactitud, paciencia y ternura desmonta el mito de la familia perfecta.… (más)