“To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the call from God, but creating a world for oneself.”

About Jane Smiley

Author • American

Jane Smiley is a highly acclaimed American novelist and essayist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel 'A Thousand Acres,' a modern retelling of Shakespeare's King Lear. Her prolific body of work...