Jane Smiley is an American novelist and essayist. She is best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres (1991). Her other works include The Age of Grief (1987), Moo (1995), Horse Heaven (2000), Good Faith (2003), and Some Luck (2014). She is also the author of non-fiction works, including 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005).