1997: Carol Anshaw, Seven MovesShe is already up to feeling sorry for the pie-faced wife and children in the oak frames on his filing cabinet, the small cluster of people who have Jon Folan in every one of their days.
1998: Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees: A NovelJolene was a pie-faced, heavy girl and I always thought she looked the type to have gone and found trouble just to show you didn't have to be a cheerleader to be fast.
2001: Roger Ladd Memott, The Gypsy LoverHe glanced across her at the jawless, pie-faced woman soon to be her mother-in-law, whose owlish eyes were fixed askance upon their hands.