![]() ![]() ![]() Her most recent novels make up the Last Hundred Years trilogy, a year-by-year, multigenerational account of a Midwestern family between 19. In 1992, Smiley won the Pulitzer Prize for A Thousand Acres, a modern-dress King Lear set in Iowa farm country. ![]() Smiley is equally prolific on the page: since 1980 she has published two story collections and fourteen novels, including a murder mystery, a medieval epic, a college satire, a nineteenth-century picaresque, and reworkings of Shakespeare and Boccaccio. ” before launching into a story within a story, a pattern that continued as she made scones, cooked dinner, fed her horses, and drove. One anecdote led to another, and she frequently interrupted herself to ask, “Did I tell you about. During the two afternoons I spent interviewing her, I heard about how her great-grandmother, a Norwegian immigrant, met her husband while going door-to-door as a dressmaker in Saint Paul, Minnesota how her grandfather nearly froze to death during a blizzard on an Idaho ranch how her grandmother lost the diamond ring her husband had won in a poker game. ![]() Jane Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, in a family of storytellers-and it shows. Interviewed by Nicole Rudick Issue 214, Fall 2015 ![]()
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