Jane Smiley

Jane Smiley is an American novelist, born in 1949, whose books span historical and literary fiction. She is best known for A Thousand Acres, which won her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992. Her other titles include The Greenlanders, about Norse settlers in Greenland, and Twenty Yawns. Some Luck opens The Last Hundred Years Trilogy, and coming-of-age stories run through several of her novels.