Gregory Blake Smith (born 1951), is an American

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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 and the 2012 Minnesota Book Award. Smith holds an undergraduate degree from

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and an M.F.A. from the

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. He has been the George Bennett Fellow at

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and a Wallace Stegner Fellow at

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. He is currently the Lloyd P. Johnson Norwest Professor of English and the Liberal Arts at

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.Gregory Blake Smith, Carleton College English Dept.
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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:

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, 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 *

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, 2006 *Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2010 *Lawrence Foundation Award, 2012 *Minnesota Book Award for Fiction, 2012

References

External links

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“Missing, Believed Wiped,” (short story)

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