Iowa Time Machine ⏰: On October 23, 1991, Jane Smiley’s modern adaptation of “King Lear”, set on an Iowa farm titled “A Thousand Acres”, debuted. The book won the 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Jane Smiley arrived in Iowa in the early 1970s for graduate study at the University of Iowa. After obtaining an MA, an MFA, and a PhD while in Iowa City, she headed west to serve as a faculty member at Iowa State University. While at Iowa State, Smiley won