Vegas Valley Book Festival keynote address

Jane Smiley's novel Thousand Acres, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 and is based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, has been published in 96 editions from 1991-2010 and is held by 4,383 libraries worldwide. Jane's other novels include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary...

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Main Author: Smiley, Jane
Format: Audio
Language:English
Published: Digital Scholarship@UNLV 2011
Subjects:
Creative writing
Literature – Criticism and interpretation
Oral interpretation of fiction
Smiley
Jane
Writers
American Literature
Literature in English
North America
Modern Literature
Pulitzer
greenlander*
Online Access:https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/blackmountain_lectures_events/112
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/context/blackmountain_lectures_events/article/1111/type/native/viewcontent
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Summary:Jane Smiley's novel Thousand Acres, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 and is based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, has been published in 96 editions from 1991-2010 and is held by 4,383 libraries worldwide. Jane's other novels include The Age of Grief, The Greenlanders, Ordinary Love and Good Will, Horse Heaven, Good Faith, Ten Days in the Hills, and Moo, a satiric portrayal of University life. Her essays have appeared in Vogue, The New Yorker, Practical Horseman, Harper's, The Nation, and Allure among others. In 2001, Jane was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and then in 2006 was received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature.

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