Jane Smiley's "A Thousand Acres" has long been compared to Shakespeare's "...
Jane Smiley's Videos, Audio, and Images
Jane’s Audio
03.Dec.2007
7:28
Hear Jane Smiley interviewed at Litquake, San Francisco's annual literary festival.
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...








