Sarah Smith (writer)
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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
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- Chasing Shakespeares Atria Books, 2003, Template:ISBN
- The Other Side of Dark Atheneum, 2010, Template:ISBN
- Crimes and Survivors Max Light Books, 2020, Template:ISBN
Hypertext novel
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Anthologies
- The Boys Go Fishing (Aug 2010) in Death's Excellent Vacation[14]
References
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External links
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- Interstitial Art Foundation
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- LibraryThing author profile
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- 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
- Harvard University alumni
- Writers from Brookline, Massachusetts
- Writers of historical mysteries
- American women science fiction and fantasy writers
- American women mystery writers
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- American women historical novelists
- American historical novelists
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- American electronic literature writers