Jump to content

Sherwood Smith

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 75.80.113.223 (talk) at 08:22, 21 October 2010 (→‎Sartorias-deles). The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Sherwood Smith
Occupationauthor, teacher
NationalityUnited States
Genrefantasy, science fiction

Sherwood Smith writes fantasy and science fiction for young adult as well as adults. She has participated in and organized writing groups (both on- and off-line) for many years.

Smith's works include the YA novel Crown Duel. Smith also collaborated with Dave Trowbridge in writing the Exordium series and with Andre Norton in writing two of the books in the Solar Queen universe.

In 2001 her short story "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Short Story. Moreover, her children's books have made it on many library Best Books lists, and Wren's War was an Anne Spencer Lindbergh Honor book and a Mythopoeic Fantasy Award finalist.[2]

Biography

Sherwood Smith was born in 1951.[2] On her website, Smith describes herself as a middle-aged woman who has been married for over twenty-five years. Besides writing, she taught part-time at a K-8 school. She has "two kids, two dogs, and a house full of books."[3]

Smith began making books out of taped paper towels when she was five years old.[2] When she was 8, she started writing about another world, Sartorias-deles, though she soon switched to making comic books of her stories, which she found to be easier. Although she first tried to send out her novels when she was 13, nothing sold. However, some of the novels Smith first wrote as a teen, including Wren to the Rescue were sold after she learned to rewrite.[3]

In the years it took her to learn to rewrite, Smith "went to college, lived in Europe, came back to get [her] masters in History, worked in Hollywood, got married, started a family and became a teacher."[3]

Smith currently resides in California.[2]

Real Name?

Smith is the family name this author was born with. However, she never liked her given name. Therefore, she took the name "Sherwood" when she started writing about Sartorias-deles, for that was the last name of the gang of girls she wrote about. (At the time, she was under the impression that you couldn't change your last name until you were married.[3]) When asked whether Sherwood Smith is her real name, Smith says, "All my contracts are signed with Sherwood Smith and my checks come made out to Sherwood Smith, so as far as I am concerned it is my real name."[3] This phenomenon is a more extreme variation, but not altogether unlike authors' such as C. S. Lewis contracting their names.

Partial bibliography

Books Written Under Other Pseudonyms

Smith has written some of the books in the Planet Builders series as Robyn Tallis. She has also written four books in the Nowhere High series as Jesse Maguire and one book in the Horror High series as Nicholas Adams.[4]

Novels

Wren Books

Sartorias-deles

Other:

Exordium

Andre Norton's Solar Queen Universe

Andre Norton's Time Traders Universe

Oz Series

TV tie-in Novels

Short stories

Notes and references

  1. ^ a b Amazon.com: Profile for Sherwood Smith
  2. ^ a b c d Sherwood Smith
  3. ^ a b c d e See http://www.sff.net/people/Sherwood/faq.html
  4. ^ The SF Site Featured Review: The Crown and Court Duet - Crown Duel and Court Duel
  5. ^ 403 Forbidden
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sherwood_Smith&oldid=391991167"