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(b.Jane Smiley turned fifty just in time for the new millennium. She lives in California with her three children, three dogs, and her sixteen (and counting) horses. Born in Los Angeles, California, Jane moved to the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri, as an infant, and lived there through grammar school and high school (The John Burroughs School). After getting her BA at Vassar College in 1971, she traveled in Europe for a year, working on an archeological dig and sight-seeing, then returned to Iowa for graduate school at the University of Iowa.
Genres: Young Adult Fiction, Historical, Historical Mystery, Science Fiction
New Books
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch
1. The Georges and the Jewels (2009)
aka Nobody's Horse
2. A Good Horse (2010)
aka Secret Horse
3. True Blue (2011)
aka Mystery Horse
4. Pie in the Sky (2012)
5. Gee Whiz (2013)
1. The Georges and the Jewels (2009)
aka Nobody's Horse
2. A Good Horse (2010)
aka Secret Horse
3. True Blue (2011)
aka Mystery Horse
4. Pie in the Sky (2012)
5. Gee Whiz (2013)
Novels
Barn Blind (1980)
Duplicate Keys (1984)
The Greenlanders (1988)
A Thousand Acres (1991)
At Paradise Gate (1993)
Moo (1995)
The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998)
Horse Heaven (2000)
Good Faith (2003)
Ten Days in the Hills (2007)
Ordinary Love (2008)
Private Life (2010)
Champion Horse (2013)
Star Horse (2014)
Twenty Yawns (2016)
Perestroika in Paris (2020)
The Strays of Paris (2020)
A Dangerous Business (2022)
Duplicate Keys (1984)
The Greenlanders (1988)
A Thousand Acres (1991)
At Paradise Gate (1993)
Moo (1995)
The All-true Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998)
Horse Heaven (2000)
Good Faith (2003)
Ten Days in the Hills (2007)
Ordinary Love (2008)
Private Life (2010)
Champion Horse (2013)
Star Horse (2014)
Twenty Yawns (2016)
Perestroika in Paris (2020)
The Strays of Paris (2020)
A Dangerous Business (2022)
Omnibus
Collections
Novellas
Series contributed to
Anthologies edited
Non fiction
Catskill Crafts (1987)
The Sagas of the Icelanders (2000)
Charles Dickens (2002)
A Year At the Races (2004)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005)
The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010)
An Innocent Abroad (2014) (with John Berendt, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer and Alexander McCall Smith)
Better than Fiction 2 (2015) (with Sophie Cunningham, Dave Eggers, M J Hyland, Lloyd Jones, Fiona Kidman, Marina Lewycka, Alexander McCall Smith, D B C Pierre and Francine Prose)
March Sisters (2019) (with Kate Bolick, Carmen Maria Machado and Jenny Zhang)
The Most Important Questions (2023)
The Sagas of the Icelanders (2000)
Charles Dickens (2002)
A Year At the Races (2004)
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005)
The Man Who Invented the Computer (2010)
An Innocent Abroad (2014) (with John Berendt, Dave Eggers, Richard Ford, Pico Iyer and Alexander McCall Smith)
Better than Fiction 2 (2015) (with Sophie Cunningham, Dave Eggers, M J Hyland, Lloyd Jones, Fiona Kidman, Marina Lewycka, Alexander McCall Smith, D B C Pierre and Francine Prose)
March Sisters (2019) (with Kate Bolick, Carmen Maria Machado and Jenny Zhang)
The Most Important Questions (2023)
Awards
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Jane Smiley recommends
Cold Earth (2009)
Sarah Moss
"Moss is such a master at evoking suspense... that readers will be tempted to turn to the end of the book to relieve anxieties. Try to control yourself!"
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