Gregory Blake Smith
Gregory Blake Smith, 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 and the 2012 Minnesota Book Award.
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.Works
- The Devil in the Dooryard, New York: William Morrow, 1986, and London: William Collins, 1987,
- The Divine Comedy of John Venner, New York: Poseidon Press, 1992,
- , New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005,
- , Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011,
- The Maze at Windermere, 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
