question: Who wrote the novel A Thousand Acres, T. E. Lawrence or Jane Smiley?
answer: Jane Smiley
context: Title: T E Ranch Headquarters
  Passage: The T E Ranch Headquarters, near Cody, Wyoming, is a log ranch house that belonged to buffalo hunter and entertainer Buffalo Bill Cody (1846–1917).  The house may have originally been built by homesteader Bob Burns prior to 1895, when Cody acquired the ranch.  Cody expanded the ranch to about eight thousand acres (32 km²), using the T E brand for his thousand head of cattle.
  Title: Lauderdale (Buchanan, Virginia)
  Passage: Lauderdale is a historic home located near Buchanan, Botetourt County, Virginia.  Lauderdale takes its name from the eighteenth century owner of the property, James Lauderdale Sr.  Lauderdale purchased 366 acres on Looney Mill Creek in 1749.  By the early 1780s, he owned over a thousand acres in Botetourt County, and in 1785 he was listed as the owner of a dwelling and three other buildings.  The home Lauderdale was built in 1790 by James Lauderdale Sr.  Lauderdale Sr. settled in the area in 1730, when the region was still in the possession of the Indians.  The mansion 'Lauderdale' was built near a spring,near which it is said that Lauderdale shot and killed an Indian during an attack on his home.  The plantation consisted of 1200 acres, Lauderdale is one of the largest houses in Botetourt.  There are thirty rooms within its walls.  The high ceilings and hand carved woodwork of the immense hallway,library, and drawing room make it one of the handsomest houses is Virginia.  The bricks on its walls were made by slaves on the place.  In 1796, Lauderdale sold 444 acres, including his residence to Col. Henry Bowyer (ca. 1760-1832).  Most references to Lauderdale incorrectly show the date of its construction as 1821, yet the Botetourt County Deed Book VI, page 36, clearly shows the subsequent owner of the mansion from Lauderdale's son, James Lauderdale Jr., a Col. Henry Bowyer, having purchased the home in 1796.
  Title: T. E. Lawrence
  Passage: Thomas Edward Lawrence, (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer.  He was renowned for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.  The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia—a title used for the 1962 film based on his wartime activities.
  Title: Bateman's 'Great Landowners' (1883)
  Passage: John Bateman (1839–1910) published in 1883 the fourth edition of his 1876 The Acre-Ocracy of England retitled The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland, A list of all owners of Three thousand acres and upwards, worth £3,000 a year; Also, one thousand three hundred owners of Two thousand acres and upwards, in England, Scotland, Ireland, & Wales, their acreage and income from Land, Culled from 'THE MODERN DOMESDAY BOOK, under the Harrison imprint.  His source for the data was the government produced survey Return of Owners of Land, 1873, often known as the "Modern Domesday Book", the many errors in which he revised and corrected.  The preface to his work sets out many of the criticisms of the original 1873 Return and identifies some of the commonest errors contained in it.
  Title: Some Luck
  Passage: Some Luck is a 2014 novel by Jane Smiley.  It is the first in a planned trilogy of novels about an Iowa family over the course of generations.  It was longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award.
  Title: Jane Smiley
  Passage: Jane Smiley (born September 26, 1949) is an American novelist.  She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1992 for her novel "A Thousand Acres" (1991).
  Title: A Thousand Acres
  Passage: A Thousand Acres is a 1991 novel by American author Jane Smiley.  It won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 1991 and was adapted to a 1997 film of the same name.
  Title: The Greenlanders
  Passage: The Greenlanders is a 1984 historical-fiction epic novel by American author Jane Smiley.
  Title: Moo (novel)
  Passage: Moo is a 1995 novel by Jane Smiley.  Its setting is a large university, known familiarly as "Moo U" because of its large agricultural college, in the American Midwest.  The novel is a satire that uses a sprawling narrative style, following the lives of dozens of characters over the course of the 1989-1990 academic year.
  Title: Tavis Smiley
  Passage: Tavis Smiley ( ; born September 13, 1964) is an American talk show host and author.  Smiley was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, and grew up in Bunker Hill, Indiana.  After attending Indiana University, he worked during the late 1980s as an aide to Tom Bradley, the mayor of Los Angeles.  Smiley became a radio commentator in 1991 and, starting in 1996, he hosted the talk show "BET Talk" (later renamed "BET Tonight") on Black Entertainment Television (BET).  After Smiley sold an exclusive interview of Sara Jane Olson to ABC News in 2001, BET declined to renew his contract that year.  Smiley then began hosting "The Tavis Smiley Show" on National Public Radio (NPR) (2002–04) and currently hosts "Tavis Smiley" on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) on weekdays and "The Tavis Smiley Show" on Public Radio International (PRI).  From 2010 to 2013, Smiley and Cornel West joined forces to host their own radio talk show, "Smiley & West".  They were featured together interviewing musician Bill Withers in the 2009 documentary film "Still Bill".  He is the new host of "Tavis Talks" on BlogTalkRadio's Tavis Smiley Network.
citations: Jane Smiley T. E. Lawrence