Order of Jane Smiley Books
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 |
Publication Order of Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga Books
| Some Luck | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Early Warning | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Golden Age | (2015) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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 |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Lily | (2016) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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 | (2014) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women | (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
Publication Order of Warmer Collection Books
| The Way the World Ends | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Boca Raton | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Controller | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| There's No Place Like Home | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Falls the Shadow | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| At the Bottom of New Lake | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Hillside | (2018) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
Publication Order of Anthologies
| Great American Short Stories | (1990) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Short Stories 1995 | (1995) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Good Parts | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Body | (2000) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Writers on Writing | (2001) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| The Best American Erotica 2005 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Best New American Voices 2006 | (2005) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories about the Men We Used to Love | (2007) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Dedicated to the People of Darfur | (2009) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Fast Funny Women: 75 Essays of Flash Nonfiction | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
| Horse Girls: Recovering, Aspiring, and Devoted Riders Redefine the Iconic Bond | (2021) | Description / Buy at Amazon.com |
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.