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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
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With horses, familiarity breeds comfort. If you haven’t been around horses for a while (or ever), the best thing to do is to go to the racetrack, a horse show, a rodeo, or some other horsey activity, and watch the horses. Familiarize yourself with the way they move and behave themselves.
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Why are we reading a Shakespeare play or ‘Huckleberry Finn?’ Well, because these works are great, but they also tell us something about the times in which they were created. Unfortunately, previous eras and dead authors often used language or accepted as normal sentiments that we now find unacceptable.
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Birth: | 26th September, 1949 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Professor |
Jane Smiley was born in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an American novelist and professor. She obtained a BA degree in literature from Vassar College in 1971, an MA degree in 1975, an MFA degree from the University of Iowa in 1976. She received his PhD from the University of Iowa in 1978. From 1981 to 1996 she was a Professor of English at Iowa State University. She has written several novels include: Barn Blind, At Paradise Gate, Duplicate Keys, The Greenlanders, A Thousand Acres(Won- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992), Moo, The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton, Horse Heaven, Good Faith, Ten Days in the Hills, Private Life, Some Luck, and Early Warning. In 2001, she was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. She won the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.
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