美国女作家珍妮·斯迈利是近些年来崛起于美国文坛的一位新星。1992年,她以长篇小说《一千英亩》赢得了当年的普利策小说奖,美国评论界甚至有人称她正在成为一位“20世纪末美国中西部的巴尔扎克”。据美国《纽约时报书评》周刊 American female writer Jenny Smyrley is a rising star in the American literary world in recent years. In 1992, she won the Pulitzer Prize for that year with the novel “One Thousand Acres,” and some in the American critics even claim that she is becoming a “Balzac” in the mid-20th century in the United States. According to the U.S. “New York Times Book Review” magazine