{{short description|American novelist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}} '''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<ref>{{cite web|last=University of Mass.|title=2010 Juniper Winners|url=http://www.umass.edu/umpress/juniper_winners2010.pdf|accessdate=8 April 2011}}{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> and the 2012 Minnesota Book Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://blogs.mprnews.org/state-of-the-arts/2012/04/minnesota-book-awards/|title = Minnesota Book Awards: The winners for 2012}}</ref>
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.<ref>[http://apps.carleton.edu/people/smith/ Gregory Blake Smith, Carleton College English Dept.]</ref>
==Works== *''The Devil in the Dooryard'' (novel), New York: William Morrow, 1986, and London: William Collins, 1987, {{ISBN|9780345347060}} *''The Divine Comedy of John Venner'' (novel), New York: Poseidon Press, 1992, {{ISBN|9780671788544}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=UUhZcUuvS0EC&q=Gregory+Blake+Smith ''The Madonna of Las Vegas''] (novel), New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005, {{ISBN|9781400081868}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=fM9PmBFZye8C&q=Gregory+Blake+Smith ''The Law of Miracles''] (short stories), Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011, {{ISBN|9781558499003}} *''The Maze at Windermere'' (novel), Viking, January, 2018, {{ISBN|9780735221925}}
== 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
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110719012943/http://www.massreview.org/PDF/4502/4502_Smith.pdf “Missing, Believed Wiped,” (short story)] * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20110820111911/http://mag.chamberfour.com/issue1/smith.html “Destroying Herman Yoder,” (short story)]}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20111006234614/http://www.nereview.com/26-1/Smith_A%20Few%20Moral%20Problems.html “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)] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20090921064111/http://www.citypages.com/2005-09-14/news/cosmo-dust-versus-mr-universe/ Cosmo Dust Versus Mr. Universe (interview)]
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