Gregory Blake Smith Explained

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,
• The Divine Comedy of John Venner (novel), New York: Poseidon Press, 1992,
• The Madonna of Las Vegas (novel), New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005,
• The Law of Miracles (short stories), Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011,
• The Maze at Windermere (novel), Viking, January, 2018,

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

External links

• “Missing, Believed Wiped,” (short story)
• “Destroying Herman Yoder,” (short story)
• “A Few Moral Problems You Might Like to Ponder, of a Winter’s Evening, in Front of the Fire, with a Cat on Your Lap” (short story)
• Cosmo Dust Versus Mr. Universe (interview)

Notes and References

1. Web site: University of Mass.. 2010 Juniper Winners. 8 April 2011.
2. Web site: Minnesota Book Awards: The winners for 2012.
3. http://apps.carleton.edu/people/smith/ Gregory Blake Smith, Carleton College English Dept.