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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jane Smiley appears at the 2010 National Book Festival, poetry tent. Speaker Biography: Jane Smiley is the author of several critically acclaimed and popular novels, including “The Age of God,” “The Greenlanders,” “Ordinary Love and Good Will,” “A Thousand Acres” (winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award), “Horse Heaven,” “Good Faith” and the new young-adult novel “The Georges and the Jewels” (Knopf). She has also written for The New Yorker, Horseman, Harper’s, The Nation and others. In 2001 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and in 2006 received the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award for Literature. She was a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1978 and 1987. Smiley’s new novel for adults is “Private Life” (Knopf). She lives in California.

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I read one of the fan letters I got today. And I am somewhat surprised by its contents. (find out more about me at www.maggiestiefvater.com)

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Sorry for the late upload. Had a bit of a transcription fail so had to do most it myself.

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Maggie was with us this week at Fountain. Still laughing! (Forgive the shaky cam…it’s our first video.)

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Having starred in, written, produced or directed several B movies, Barry James Hickey gives a candid interview about the process of acting in low budget movies and films. He now writes novels for a living.

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Author Olga Grushin presents at the 2010 National book Festival. Speaker Biography: Born in Moscow, Olga Grushin spent her early childhood in Prague. After returning to Moscow, she studied art history at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and journalism at Moscow State University. In 1989 she was given a full scholarship to Emory University. Since coming to the United States, she has been an interpreter for President Jimmy Carter, a cocktail waitress in a jazz bar, a translator at the World Bank, a research analyst at a Washington law firm and, most recently, an editor at Harvard University’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Her short fiction has appeared in Granta, Partisan Review, The Massachusetts Review, Confrontation and Art Times. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Granta, Vogue, The Daily Mail and elsewhere. “The Drea Life of Sukhanov,” her first novel, won the 2007 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Washington Post Top Ten Best Book of the Year, and has been translated into 14 languages. Her second and most recent novel, “The Line” (Penguin) was chosen as an Editors’ Choice book by The New York Times. She is now at work on her third book. A citizen of Russia and the United States, Grushin lives near Washington, DC

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