Sarah Smith (writer)

Sarah Winthrop Rishworth Smith
Born	December 9, 1947 (1947-12-09) (age 63) Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation	novelist
Nationality	United States
Genres	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 University. 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 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 (1992) (reprint Ballantine Books, 1993, ISBN 9780345381644)^[2][3]
• The Knowledge of Water Ballantine Books, 1996, ISBN 9780345391353.^[2][3]
• A Citizen of the Country (2000) (reprint Ballantine Books, 2002, ISBN 9780345433039)^[4]
• Chasing Shakespeares Atria Books, 2003, ISBN 9780743464826
• The Other Side of Dark Atheneum, 2010, ISBN 9781442402805

Hypertext novel

• The King of Space, with Eastgate Systems in 1991.

References

1. ^ "Crime," By Marilyn Stasio, review of The Knowledge of Water in The New York Times, September 8, 1996
2. ^ ^{a b} Durham, Carolyn A. (2005). Literary globalism: Anglo-American fiction set in France. Bucknell University Press. p. 134. ISBN 0838756085, ISBN 9780838756089. http://books.google.com/books?id=4f7WZeLipgsC&pg=PA134#v=onepage. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Jacob, Merle; Apple, Hope (2000). To be continued: an annotated guide to sequels (2nd ed.). Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 267. ISBN 157356155X, ISBN 9781573561556. http://books.google.com/books?id=NK6ZpTLtQv4C&pg=PA267. 
4. ^ Durham, Carolyn A. (2005). Literary globalism: Anglo-American fiction set in France. Bucknell University Press. p. 135. ISBN 0838756085, ISBN 9780838756089. http://books.google.com/books?id=4f7WZeLipgsC&pg=PA135#v=onepage. 

External links

• Interstitial Art Foundation
• Sarah Smith at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• LibraryThing author profile
• Works by or about Sarah Smith (writer) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Author's website

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Name	Smith, Sarah
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Date of birth	December 9, 1947
Place of birth	Boston, Massachusetts
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