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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.

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 (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: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011

Honors

• George Bennett Fellow, Phillips Exeter Academy, 1983
• Stegner Fellow, Stanford University, 1984
• National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship, 1988, 2009
• Pushcart Prize, 2006
• Juniper Prize for Fiction, 2010

External links

• “Missing, Believed Wiped,” (short story)
• “Destroying Herman Yoder,” (short story)
• “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)
• Cosmo Dust Versus Mr. Universe (interview)