Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an award-winning American novelist. She graduated from John Burroughs School in Saint Louis, Missouri, got a B.A. at Vassar College, and earned a M.F.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. From 1981 to 1996, she taught at Iowa State University.

She published her first novel, Barn Blind , in 1980, but it was for her best-selling A Thousand Acres , a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, that she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.

Bibliography

• Barn Blind (1980)
• At Paradise Gate (1981)
• Duplicate Keys (1984)
• The Age of Grief (short stories; 1992)
• The Greenlanders (1988)
• Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989)
• A Thousand Acres (1991)
• Moo (1995)
• The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998)
• Horse Heaven (2000)
• Good Faith (2003)