TITLE: Jane Smiley: 2010 National Book Festival
SPEAKER: Jane Smiley
EVENT DATE: 09/25/2010
FORMAT: Video + Captions
RUNNING TIME: 44 minutes
TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link will open in a new window)
DESCRIPTION:
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley appears at the 2010 National Book Festival.
Speaker Biography: Jane Smiley is the author of several critically acclaimed and popular novels, including "The Age of God," "The Greenlanders," "Ordinary Love and Good Will," "A Thousand Acres" (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award), "Horse Heaven," "Good Faith" and the new young-adult novel "The Georges and the Jewels" (Knopf). She has also written for The New Yorker, Horseman, Harper's, The Nation and others. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2006 received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and 1987. Smiley's new novel for adults is "Private Life" (Knopf). She lives in California.
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