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Jane Smiley, residing in California with her three children, sixteen (and counting) horses and three dogs. Jane was born in Los Angeles and as a small baby her family moved to St. Louis Missouri where she went to grade school and high school (The John Burroughs School). After graduating from high school, Jane attended Vassar College and in 1971 she attained her BA. She then traveled throughout Europe even working on an archeological dig along with sight-seeing. After her tour of Europe Jane returned to Iowa to attend graduate school at the University of Iowa where she attained her MFA and Ph.D, in 1981 she also started to work at Iowa State University in Ames – teaching until 1996.

Jane has been married three times and has two daughters and one son. Jane has authored ten works of fiction including A Thousand Acres which one the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. She has also authored many essays for magazines such as The New Yorker, Harper’s, the New York Times Magazine and the New York Times travel section, Vogue, Allure and others. Jane has authored on a variety of subjects from literature, horse training, Barbie, farming, marriage and many other subjects. She is also the author of a book about craftspeople living in the Catskills called Crown.

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Publication Order of Ellen and Ned Books

Riding Lessons(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saddles & Secrets(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Taking the Reins(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Horses Of Oak Valley Ranch Books

The Georges and the Jewels / Nobody's Horse(2009)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Good Horse / Secret Horse(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
True Blue / Mystery Horse(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pie in the Sky / Champion Horse(2012)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Gee Whiz / Star Horse(2013)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Barn Blind(1980)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
At Paradise Gate(1981)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Duplicate Keys(1984)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Greenlanders(1988)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Thousand Acres(1991)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Moo(1995)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton(1998)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Horse Heaven(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Good Faith(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ten Days in the Hills(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Private Life(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Twenty Yawns(2016)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Perestroika in Paris(2020)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Dangerous Business(2022)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Lucky(2024)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

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Publication Order of Collections

The Age of Grief(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas(1989)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

The Sagas of Icelanders(1200)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Catskill Crafts: Artisans of the Catskill Mountains(1987)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Charles Dickens(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
A Year At the Races: Reflections On Horses, Humans, Love, Money And Luck(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel(2005)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
13 Ways of Looking at the Novel(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer(2010)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers (With: Dave Eggers)(2014)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women (With: Carmen Maria Machado,Kate Bolick,Jenny Zhang)(2019)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom(2023)Description / Buy at Amazon.com

Publication Order of Penguin Lives Books

Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally)(1960)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Crazy Horse (By: Larry McMurtry)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
James Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien)(1999)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Woodrow Wilson (By: Louis Auchincloss)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland)(2000)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Jane Austen: A Life (By: Carol Shields)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Buddha (By: Karen Armstrong)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady)(2001)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini)(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Winston Churchill: A Life (By: John Keegan)(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill)(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Charles Dickens(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason)(2002)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.)(2003)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker)(2004)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson)(2006)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro)(2007)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty)(2008)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin)(2011)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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The Way the World Ends (By: Jess Walter)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Boca Raton (By: Lauren Groff)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Controller (By: Jesse Kellerman)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
There's No Place Like Home (By: Edan Lepucki)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
Falls the Shadow (By: Skip Horack)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
At the Bottom of New Lake (By: Sonya Larson)(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
The Hillside(2018)Description / Buy at Amazon.com
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If You Like Jane Smiley, You’ll Love…

Jane Smiley Synopsis: Early Warning is the second book in the Last Hundred Years: A Family series. Set in 1953 brings the Langdon family together again for a funeral. What none of them realize is over the coming years, each of their lives will change and shift. Walter and Rosanna’s daughters and sons are grown and raising children of their own. Walter and Rosanna’s eldest, Frank, is unhappy and restless and finds himself distracted by a face from his past causing him to ignore his troubled wife. Walter and Rosanna’s daughter Lillian has no choice but to watch her husband Arthur as he is destroyed by guilt coming from his secret work for the government. Daughter Clair also finds that marriage is not exactly what she thought it would be. Through their best and worst times, in sickness and health the Langdon family will love, live and suffer with the dark shadow of the Vietnam War hanging over them.

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