Jane Smiley
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About
An American fiction writer, she is best known for A Thousand Acres, a novel based on Shakespeare's famous tragedy, King Lear.
Before Fame
She spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar.
Trivia
She won both the O. Henry Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Family Life
With her husband, Stephen M. Mortensen, she had one son.
Associated With
She and Carl Sandburg both received the Pulitzer Prize.
