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Sarah Winthrop Rishworth Smith | |
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| Born | December 9, 1947 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 |
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Sarah Smith (born December 9, 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 four-novel historical mystery series set in turn of the century Boston and Paris about amnesiac Alexander von Reisden. [1] She has also authored King of Space, [2] a work of speculative fiction published as a hypertext novel by Eastgate Systems, Inc. [3] in 1991, that places her among the pioneers of electronic literature. [4][ circular reference]
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. [5] [6]
- The Knowledge of Water. Ballantine Books. 1996. ISBN 978-0-345-39135-3. [5] [6]
- A Citizen of the Country (Reprint (2002) ed.). Ballantine Books. 2000. ISBN 978-0-345-43303-9. [7]
- 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.
Anthologies
- The Boys Go Fishing (Aug 2010) in Death's Excellent Vacation [8]
References
- ^ "Crime," By Marilyn Stasio, review of The Knowledge of Water in The New York Times, September 8, 1996
- ^ "King of Space".
- ^ "Home". eastgate.com.
- ^ Electronic literature
- ^ 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.
- ^ Harris, Charlaine; Kelner; Toni L. P., eds. (Aug 2010). Death's Excellent Adventure.
External links
- Interstitial Art Foundation
- Sarah Smith at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- LibraryThing author profile
- Author's website
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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
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers
- American electronic literature writers
- Fulbright alumni