Her fiction is populated by rural and small town family members, mothers and fathers, and sons and daughters, who endure life’s tragedies with stoicism and frankness, traits often associated with inhabitants of the heartland Hamilton, though, does not allow her characters to sink into caricature.
Hamilton’s novels are set in the Midwest, the area where she spent her childhood, attended college, and lived as a full-time writer. AnalysisĬritics often compare Jane Hamilton favorably to another midwestern author, Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, whose novels A Thousand Acres and Moo are set in farm country and explore human resiliency in the face of great obstacles. Disobedience was named to the School Library Journal’s list of the best adult books for high school students in 1991. In 1998, The Short History of a Prince received the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize and was short-listed for the Orange Prize. Both novels were adapted for film, A Map of the World for the cinema in 1999 and The Book of Ruth for television in 2004. T he Book of Ruth and A Map of the World were selected for Oprah’s Book Club, helping them achieve best-seller status worldwide. In 1989, The Book of Ruth received the Great Lakes College Association New Writers Award, the Banta Award, and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for First Fiction. Jane Hamilton (born July 13, 1957) achieved early success with the publication of her first novel.
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