“My German short-haired pointer, who was incredibly graceful and lovely but would lay on the couch and look like she was in despair, would then stare at me from across the room and join in with the most beautiful howl.” “I used to sit and strum my banjo, which I don’t do very well, and my Jack Russell terrier would come running in and start barking and then do a little howling,” Smiley says on a phone call from Carmel Valley, where she relocated in 1996 after many years in Iowa. She laughs frequently and heartily as she shares stories of life chez Smiley.
But she doesn’t take herself too seriously as a person. In other words, Smiley is a serious writer. Jane Smiley earned a Pulitzer Prize for recasting “King Lear” as a modern tragedy on an Iowa farm and a National Book Award nomination for “ Some Luck,” the first book in a century-spanning American trilogy. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.
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