Sarah Smith (writer)
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Sarah Winthrop Rishworth Smith | |
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| Born | December 9, 1947 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Nationality | United States |
| Genre | Mystery, Science Fiction, Hypertext fiction |
| Literary movement | Historical whodunnit, Interstitial arts |
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Sarah Smith (born 1947) is an American author living in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Life
She holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in English literature, both from Harvard. She was an Assistant Professor of English for several years before going to work in the computer industry. She has worked for Lisp Machines Inc., Bachman Inc., ITP Systems, Inc., and Effective Educational Tech which was acquired by Pearson Education in 2006.
She is the author of a three-novel historical mystery series set in turn of the century Boston and Paris about amnesiac Alexander von Reisden.[1]
Awards
- Fulbright fellow 1968-69
- Mellon fellow, 1977
- named Woman of Year, The College Club of Boston, 1997.
Works
- The Vanished Child (Reprint (1993) ed.). Ballantine Books. 1992. ISBN 978-0-345-38164-4.[2][3]
- The Knowledge of Water. Ballantine Books. 1996. ISBN 978-0-345-39135-3.[2][3]
- A Citizen of the Country (Reprint (2002) ed.). Ballantine Books. 2000. ISBN 978-0-345-43303-9.[4]
- Chasing Shakespeares Atria Books, 2003, ISBN 978-0-7434-6482-6
- The Other Side of Dark Atheneum, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4424-0280-5
Hypertext novel
- Smith, Sarah with Eastgate Systems (1991). The King of Space.
References
- ^ "Crime," By Marilyn Stasio, review of The Knowledge of Water in The New York Times, September 8, 1996
- ^ a b Durham, Carolyn A. (2005). Literary globalism: Anglo-American fiction set in France. Bucknell University Press. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-8387-5608-9.
- ^ a b Jacob, Merle; Apple, Hope (2000). To be continued: an annotated guide to sequels (2nd ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 267. ISBN 978-1-57356-155-6.
- ^ Durham, Carolyn A. (2005). Literary globalism: Anglo-American fiction set in France. Bucknell University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-8387-5608-9.
External links
- Interstitial Art Foundation
- Sarah Smith at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- LibraryThing author profile
- Author's website
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Categories:
- 1947 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- Agatha Award winners
- American mystery writers
- American Quakers
- American science fiction writers
- American women short story writers
- American women novelists
- Fulbright Scholars
- Harvard University alumni
- People from Brookline, Massachusetts
- Writers of historical mysteries
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- Women mystery writers
- 20th-century women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- Women historical novelists
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers