Sarah Smith (writer)

Sarah Winthrop Rishworth Smith
Born	(1947-12-09) December 9, 1947 (age 77) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Education	Harvard University (BA, PhD)
Genre	Mystery, science fiction, hypertext fiction
Literary movement	Historical whodunnit, Interstitial arts
Notable awards	Agatha Awards
Website
www.sarahsmith.com

Sarah Smith (born December 9, 1947) is an American author living in Brookline, Massachusetts. ^[1]

Life

She holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in English literature, both from Harvard. ^[1] 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. ^[2]

She is the author of a four-novel historical mystery series set in turn of the century Boston and Paris about amnesiac Alexander von Reisden. ^[3] She has also authored King of Space , ^[4] a work of speculative fiction published as a hypertext novel by Eastgate Systems, Inc. ^[5] in 1991, that places her among the pioneers of electronic literature. ^[6] She has been a frequent speaker at Readercon in Boston. ^{[7] [6]}

Awards

• Fulbright fellow 1968-69
• Mellon fellow, 1977
• Woman of Year, The College Club of Boston, 1997
• Agatha Award, The Other Side of Dark, 2010 ^[8]
• Massachusetts Book Award, The Other Side of Dark, 2011 ^[9]

Works

• The Vanished Child (Reprint (1993) ed.). Ballantine Books. 1992. ISBN   978-0-345-38164-4. ^{[10] [11]}
• The Knowledge of Water. Ballantine Books. 1996. ISBN   978-0-345-39135-3. ^{[10] [11]}
• A Citizen of the Country (Reprint (2002) ed.). Ballantine Books. 2000. ISBN   978-0-345-43303-9. ^[12]
• Chasing Shakespeares Atria Books, 2003, ISBN   978-0-7434-6482-6
• The Other Side of Dark Atheneum, 2010, ISBN   978-1-4424-0280-5
• Crimes and Survivors Max Light Books, 2020, ISBN   1951636112

Hypertext novel

• Smith, Sarah with Eastgate Systems (1991). The King of Space . This work was revived and discussed in Rebooting Electronic Literature. ^[13]

Anthologies

• The Boys Go Fishing (Aug 2010) in Death's Excellent Vacation ^[14]

References

1. "Sarah Smith". Simon & Schuster. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
2. "Virtual Event: Sarah Smith's Titanic Party [04/19/20]". www.thebostoncalendar.com. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
3. "Crime," By Marilyn Stasio, review of The Knowledge of Water in The New York Times, September 8, 1996
4. "King of Space".
5. "Home". eastgate.com.
6. Dirda, Michael (2023-07-20). "At Readercon, print is still king" . Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
7. "Search for Sarah | Readercon Web Services". readercon.org. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
8. "AGATHA AWARDS BEST CHILDREN/YOUNG ADULT | Cozy Mystery List". cozy-mystery.com. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
9. "Previous Winners". Massachusetts Center for the Book. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
10. Durham, Carolyn A. (2005). Literary globalism: Anglo-American fiction set in France. Bucknell University Press. p. 134. ISBN   978-0-8387-5608-9.
11. 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.
12. Durham, Carolyn A. (2005). Literary globalism: Anglo-American fiction set in France. Bucknell University Press. p. 135. ISBN   978-0-8387-5608-9.
13. "Rebooting Electronic Literature: Sarah Smith's "King of Space"". Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
14. Harris, Charlaine; Kelner; Toni L. P., eds. (Aug 2010). Death's Excellent Adventure.

External links

• Official website
• Interstitial Art Foundation Archived 2006-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
• Sarah Smith at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• LibraryThing author profile