Gregory Blake Smith

Gregory Blake Smith (born 1951), is an American novelist and short story writer. His novel, The Divine Comedy of John Venner, was named a Notable Book of 1992 by The New York Times Book Review and his short story collection The Law of Miracles won the 2010 Juniper Prize for Fiction[1] and the 2012 Minnesota Book Award.[2]

Smith holds an undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has been the George Bennett Fellow at Phillips Exeter Academy and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is currently the Lloyd P. Johnson Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College.[3]

Works
  • The Devil in the Dooryard (novel), New York: William Morrow, 1986, and London: William Collins, 1987, ISBN 9780345347060
  • The Divine Comedy of John Venner (novel), New York: Poseidon Press, 1992, ISBN 9780671788544
  • The Madonna of Las Vegas (novel), New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005, ISBN 9781400081868
  • The Law of Miracles (short stories), Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011, ISBN 9781558499003
  • The Maze at Windermere (novel), Viking, January, 2018, ISBN 9780735221925

Honors
  • Transatlantic Award, Henfield Foundation, 1982
  • George Bennett Fellow, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1983
  • Stegner Fellow, Stanford University, 1984
  • James A. Michener Award, Copernicus Society, 1985
  • National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1988, 2009
  • Pushcart Prize, 2006
  • Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2010
  • Lawrence Foundation Award, 2012
  • Minnesota Book Award for Fiction, 2012

References
  1. University of Mass. "2010 Juniper Winners" (PDF). Retrieved 8 April 2011.
  2. http://blogs.mprnews.org/state-of-the-arts/2012/04/minnesota-book-awards/
  3. Gregory Blake Smith, Carleton College English Dept.
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