Sarah Smith (writer)
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Sarah Winthrop Rishworth Smith | |
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| Born | December 9, 1947 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.).
- The Knowledge of Water. Ballantine Books. 1996.
- 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
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8387-5608-9.
- ^ ISBN 978-1-57356-155-6.
- 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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