Jane Smiley will be speaking at the Spanos Theater on May 27th at 7pm.  Topic: The Education of a Writer–How every book is different, and never what you expected, no matter how knowledgeable you thought you were. A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, essayist, and biographer, Jane Smiley is the author of more than twenty fiction and nonfiction books. A jack-of-all-trades, Smiley is a sought-after and flexible lecturer who speaks on a wide variety of topics, including politics, farming, child rearing, and literature.