She is also the author of
Moo (1995), a comic novel about academic life. In complementary fashion, she has written a large number of essays, articles, occasional pieces, and book reviews. In both her fiction and nonfiction the salient issues and common focuses include environmental vigilance, the role and disposition of power in domestic life, the implications of food production and preparation, and reading, writing, and culture.
Jane Graves Smiley was born on 26 September 1949 in Los Angeles County Hospital to James LaVerne Smiley and Frances Graves Smiley, both Midwesterners. Her parents met in Paris during World War II, while Frances Graves was an army journalist and James Smiley an army officer. When the war ended, they resumed independent lives; she began a career in journalism in Memphis, and he a career in aeronautical engineering in Los Angeles. Their relationship was eventually re-established by letter, and they were married in December 1948. When Smiley was four, her parents divorced, her father having started to undergo treatment for mental problems (possibly because of trauma suffered during his wartime service). Jane Smiley and her mother moved to St.
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