Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley ( born September 26, 1949 in Los Angeles ) is an American author and Pulitzer Prize winner.
Smiley was born in Los Angeles and grew up in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, where they lived until the completion of high school. In 1971 she moved for a year to Europe, where he worked as an archaeologist and tour guide. She then studied at Vassar College and Iowa State University, among others Scandinavian languages and folklore.
She was married three times: with John Whiston (1970-1975), William Silag (1978-1986) and Stephen M. Mortensen ( 1987-1997 ). Two daughters, Phoebe Silag (born 1978 ) and Lucy Silag (* 1982 ), and a son, AJ Mortensen (* 1992).
Works
Smiley wrote previously about politics, farming, horse training, child-rearing, literature, historical themes, the Barbie doll, marriage and much more, which Time magazine moved to the question of what Jane Smiley because could not.