The Los Angeles Times today announced the finalists and honorees for the 44th annual Book Prizes. Jane Smiley will receive the Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement and Access Books will be ...

The idea for 'Perestroika in Paris” first came to Jane Smiley just as she was getting to work on her massive and exceptional 'Last 100 Years Trilogy” ('Some Luck,” 'Early Warnings,” and 'Golden Age”).

AMES, Iowa -- Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Thousand Acres" and former Iowa State University faculty member, returns to her old stomping grounds in Ames to share in a ...

It’s hard to overstate the pleasure of reading Jane Smiley — especially, for me, her essays. A new collection, “The Questions that Matter Most,” offers a case in point. Line for line, Smiley delivers ...

“It’s always tempting for readers to read novels about people like themselves,” says the author, whose latest novel is “A Dangerous Business.” “One of the benefits of literature classes in school is ...

Jane Smiley paints such vivid imagery with her language that it’s easy for her novels to conjure memories of various movies and television. Her latest, “A Dangerous Business” (Knopf, 224 pp., ★★★½ out ...

As the show's director, Kristine McIntyre, observed, “It’s not every day a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist hands over her book to you and lets you do what you want with it." McIntyre and her ...

Jane Smiley is the author of numerous novels, including A Thousand Acres, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and most recently, Some Luck, the first volume of The Last Hundred Years trilogy, ...