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.
Publication Order of Ellen and Ned Books
| Riding Lessons | (2018) |    |
| Saddles & Secrets | (2019) | |
| Taking the Reins | (2020) | |
Publication Order of Horses Of Oak Valley Ranch Books
| The Georges and the Jewels / Nobody's Horse | (2009) | |
| A Good Horse / Secret Horse | (2010) | |
| True Blue / Mystery Horse | (2011) | |
| Pie in the Sky / Champion Horse | (2012) | |
| Gee Whiz / Star Horse | (2013) | |
Publication Order of Last Hundred Years: A Family Saga Books
| Some Luck | (2014) | |
| Early Warning | (2015) | |
| Golden Age | (2015) | |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
| Barn Blind | (1980) | |
| At Paradise Gate | (1981) | |
| Duplicate Keys | (1984) | |
| The Greenlanders | (1988) | |
| A Thousand Acres | (1991) | |
| Moo | (1995) | |
| The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton | (1998) | |
| Horse Heaven | (1999) | |
| Good Faith | (2003) | |
| Ten Days in the Hills | (2007) | |
| Private Life | (2010) | |
| Twenty Yawns | (2016) | |
| Perestroika in Paris | (2020) | |
| A Dangerous Business | (2022) | |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
| Lily | (2016) | |
Publication Order of Collections
| The Age of Grief | (1987) | |
| Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas | (1989) | |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
| The Sagas of Icelanders | (1200) | |
| Catskill Crafts: Artisans of the Catskill Mountains | (1987) | |
| A Year At the Races: Reflections On Horses, Humans, Love, Money And Luck | (2004) | |
| Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel | (2005) | |
| The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer | (2010) | |
| An Innocent Abroad: Life-Changing Trips from 35 Great Writers | (2014) | |
| March Sisters: On Life, Death, and Little Women | (2019) | |
| The Questions That Matter Most: Reading, Writing, and the Exercise of Freedom | (2023) | |
Publication Order of Penguin Lives Biographies Books
| Crazy Horse | (1999) | |
| Marcel Proust | (1999) | |
| Mozart | (1999) | |
| Saint Augustine | (1999) | |
| James Joyce | (1999) | |
| Mao Zedong | (1999) | |
| Virginia Woolf | (2000) | |
| Woodrow Wilson | (2000) | |
| Herman Melville | (2000) | |
| Rosa Parks | (2000) | |
| Leonardo da Vinci | (2000) | |
| Jane Austen | (2001) | |
| Buddha | (2001) | |
| Simone Weil | (2001) | |
| Dante | (2001) | |
| Andy Warhol | (2001) | |
| Winston Churchill | (2002) | |
| Pope John XXIII | (2002) | |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | (2002) | |
| Charles Dickens | (2002) | |
| Napoleon | (2002) | |
| Elvis Presley | (2002) | |
| Joseph Smith | (2002) | |
| Abraham Lincoln | (2002) | |
| Robert E. Lee | (2003) | |
| Saint Therese of Lisieux | (2003) | |
| Martin Luther | (2004) | |
| George Herbert Walker Bush | (2004) | |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | (2004) | |
| Julia Child | (2007) | |
| Joan of Arc | (2008) | |
| Branch Rickey | (2011) | |
Publication Order of Warmer Collection Books
| The Way the World Ends | (2018) | |
| Boca Raton | (2018) | |
| Controller | (2018) | |
| There's No Place Like Home | (2018) | |
| Falls the Shadow | (2018) | |
| At the Bottom of New Lake | (2018) | |
| The Hillside | (2018) | |
Publication Order of Best New American Voices Books
| Best New American Voices 2000 | (2000) | |
| Best New American Voices 2001 | (2001) | |
| Best New American Voices 2003 | (2002) | |
| Best New American Voices 2004 | (2003) | |
| Best New American Voices 2005 | (2004) | |
| Best New American Voices 2006 | (2005) | |
| Best New American Voices 2007 | (2006) | |
| Best New American Voices 2008 | (2007) | |
| Best New American Voices 2009 | (2008) | |
| Best New American Voices 2010 | (2009) | |
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Publication Order of Anthologies
| Great American Short Stories | (1990) | |
| First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers | (1994) | |
| The Good Parts: The Best Erotic Writing in Modern Fiction | (2000) | |
| Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from The New York Times | (2001) | |
| The Best American Erotica 2005 | (2005) | |
| Mr. Wrong: Real-Life Stories about the Men We Used to Love | (2007) | |
| Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting | (2013) | |
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.