AMES, Iowa -- Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Thousand Acres" and former Iowa State University faculty member, returns to her old stomping grounds in Ames to share in a ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. American literature is full of novels that take male failure seriously, Jane Smiley says. She wants women to have the same ...

Jane Smiley is the popular, bestselling author of numerous adult books, both fiction and nonfiction; in 1992, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Thousand Acres. The Georges and the Jewels ...

A crowd gathered to photograph the bronze statue of author Willa Cather after a dedication ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Statuary Hall on Wednesday June 7, 2023. The Cather statue is Nebraska's second ...

Private Life (Knopf) Jane Smiley explores lives limited by repression, narrow scope and boundless ego, describing the sadness of a genius whose work never catches on, and the frustration of a wife ...