Jane Smiley's Reading Interests
Influences
The Bobbsy Twins, Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie
Sherlock Holmes, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen
Ole Rolvaag
About Jane
Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California, 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 Bachelor of Art at Vassar College in 1971, she...