Jane Smiley

Michael Krasny

May 12, 2010 at

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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley discusses her latest work, “Private Life.” The novel follows the life events of Smiley’s protagonist, Margaret Mayfield, from the 1880s to World War II, and captures themes of love and loss in a historical context.

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