Biography & Contact

Jane Smiley
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of fiction and nonfiction; political activist

Jane Smiley

University Affiliation

Former Distinguished Professor, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

Publishers

Anchor
Ballantine Books
Crown Publishers
Flamingo
Free Press
Harvest Books
Knopf
Penguin Group USA
Random House
Simon & Schuster

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...