Jane Smiley's Birth Card: The Jack of Hearts

In the record

Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist. The birth-card coordinate for September 26 is the Jack of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of Jane Smiley's 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — A Thousand Acres.

Pulitzer Fiction record

• 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — A Thousand Acres

Jane Smiley is on the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list for A Thousand Acres (https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-year/1992). Jane Smiley (Q441067, Wikipedia “Jane Smiley”) appears here as a person-scope Fiction winner. Jane Smiley is listed as the sole Fiction recipient for each year in this pack. Works in this pack for Jane Smiley: 1992 A Thousand Acres. Jane Smiley's English Wikipedia title is the same string as the harvested name. Birth date 1949-09-26 is the Wikipedia infobox day for Jane Smiley, verified against Wikidata P569 1949-09-26 (match). Pulitzer.org bio date status for Jane Smiley is unavailable. The harvested card symbol for September 26 is J♥. No day-precision Wikidata P570 death date is stored on this page for Jane Smiley. Source URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Smiley is the Wikipedia article used for Jane Smiley. This page does not invent a childhood or a private address for Jane Smiley. It only names the calendar coordinate for September 26 and the Fiction titles already listed for Jane Smiley.

The Jack of Hearts coordinate

Jane Smiley was born September 26, 1949 (1949-09-26). Month 9 and day 26 give solar value 11, which is the Jack of Hearts (The Romantic Messenger). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day). The year 1949 is unused, so Jane Smiley's 1949 birth year does not move the card. The Jack of Hearts does not predict a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is not a verdict on Jane Smiley. Quoted system copy for the Jack of Hearts, not a biography of Jane Smiley: You bring a fresh read on love without leaving the room when it gets ordinary. You bring fresh perspective, inspiration, and youthful possibility to love. You see what a relationship could become and carry the spark that reawakens feeling. At your best, you innovate connection with genuine authenticity. Harvested gifts listed for the Jack of Hearts: Bringing fresh perspective and inspiration to connection; Youthful openness and emotional creativity; Innovating how relationships can work; Reawakening feeling and possibility in others. Harvested life-direction line for the Jack of Hearts: Your curriculum is learning that real people are better than your fantasies of them. You're learning to grow up into love instead of dreaming about it.

Live Jack of Hearts meaning page

Wikipedia summary used as source_text

Jane Smiley is an American novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991).

Jane Smiley in the public record

She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel A Thousand Acres (1991). Born in Los Angeles, California, Smiley grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri, a suburb of St Louis, and graduated from Community School and from John Burroughs School. She obtained an AB degree in literature at Vassar College (1971), then earned an MA (1975), MFA (1976) and PhD (1978) from the University of Iowa. While working toward her doctorate, she also spent a year studying in Iceland as a Fulbright Scholar. From 1981 to 1996 she was a Professor of English at Iowa State University, teaching undergraduate and graduate creative-writing workshops. In 1996, she relocated to California. She returned to teaching creative writing at the University of California, Riverside, in 2015. Smiley published her first novel, Barn Blind, in 1980, and won a 1985 O.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jane Smiley (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the Jack of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Jane Smiley, and not a forecast of a Pulitzer.

You bring a fresh read on love without leaving the room when it gets ordinary.

Barn Blind (1980) At Paradise Gate (1981) Duplicate Keys (1984) The Greenlanders (1988) A Thousand Acres (1991) Moo (1995) The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton (1998) Horse Heaven (2000) Good Faith (2003) Ten Days in the Hills (2007) Private Life (2010) Some Luck (2014) Early Warning (April, 2015) Golden Age (October 20, 2015) Perestroika in Paris (2020) A Dangerous Business (2022) Lucky (2024) Lidie (2026) The Age of Grief (1987) Ordinary Love & Good Will (1989) Catskill Crafts (1988) Charles Dickens (2003) A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money, and Luck (2004) Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (2005) The

Paired on shared wording: love, ordinary.

Also on the record

1. Henry Award for her short story "Lily", which was published in The Atlantic Monthly.
2. Her best-selling A Thousand Acres, a story based on William Shakespeare's King Lear, received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992.
3. It was adapted into a film of the same title in 1997.
4. Her novella The Age of Grief was made into the 2002 film The Secret Lives of Dentists.

Other Fiction winners with this card

• No other person in this set shares the Jack of Hearts.

FAQ

What is Jane Smiley's birth card?

The Jack of Hearts. September 26 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. Jane Smiley's year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, novels, character, or fate.

Where do Jane Smiley's dates and Fiction credits come from?

Birth date 1949-09-26 is the day-precision Wikipedia infobox date for Jane Smiley, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only infoboxes and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Winner identity comes from the Wikipedia Pulitzer Prize for Fiction list, which cites Pulitzer.org year pages. The Fiction line is 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction — A Thousand Acres. Pulitzer.org bio date status is unavailable. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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