Scott Smith (author)

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Scott B. Smith
Smith in 2006
Smith in 2006
Born (1965-07-13) July 13, 1965 (age 58)
Summit, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • screenwriter
  • executive producer
LanguageEnglish
CitizenshipAmerican
Education
GenresHorror, thriller
Notable worksA Simple Plan (1993), The Ruins (2006)

Scott Bechtel Smith (born July 13, 1965) is an American author and

The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019). His screenplay for A Simple Plan earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
.

Early life and education

Smith was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1965 and moved to Toledo, Ohio as a child.[1] He is the son of Linda and Doug Smith. He told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reviewer Regis Behe that, as a child, he read his father's "castoffs," the novels of Clive Cussler and Jack Higgins. "Growing up, I also read Ray Bradbury and Stephen King," he said. "I just had a sense of how to create these places that aren't real world places, but just with this provisional attachment to the real world. It is very much of your imagination, and I felt very much I could do that."[2] After graduating from Dartmouth College and from Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts degree in writing, he took up writing full-time.

Career

He has published two novels, A Simple Plan and The Ruins. His screen adaptation of A Simple Plan earned him an Academy Award nomination. The screenplay won a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and a National Board of Review Award.

His second novel, The Ruins, was also adapted into a film, released on April 4, 2008. Stephen King called it "the best horror novel of the new century." King had also called A Simple Plan "simply the best suspense novel of the year."

In 2016 it was announced that

Amazon,[4] with Smith as writer.[5] Smith created the series, and served as executive producer and showrunner. Vincenzo Natali directed the show's pilot.[6]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

  • "The Egg Man," Open City Magazine, Issue #20 [7](2005)
  • "Up in Old Vermont", originally published in Seize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror (2015) by Gallery Books, edited by Christopher Golden
  • "Dogs", originally published in Dark Cities (2017) by
    Titan Books
    , edited by Christopher Golden
  • "Christmas in Barcelona", originally published in Hark! The Herald Angels Scream (2018) by Anchor Books, edited by Christopher Golden
  • "The New Boyfriend", originally published in Ten-Word Tragedies (2019) by PS Publishing, edited by Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon

Translations

Filmography

Film

Television

References

  1. ^ Prince, Tom. "Brief Lives: Making a Killing," New York, August 30, 1993, p. 48. Accessed February 20, 2011.
  2. ^ Behe, Regis (July 23, 2006). "Author Infuses The Ruins with Social Commentary". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Pittsburgh: Tribune-Review Publishing Company.
  3. ^ The Hollywood Reporter [1] "TNT Picks Up Young Shakespeare Series, Orders Modern Civil War Drama Pilot"
  4. ^ Elderkin, Beth (April 17, 2018), The Creators of Westworld Head to Amazon With New Scifi Series The Peripheral, Gizmodo, retrieved November 15, 2019
  5. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (November 13, 2019), Jonathan Nolan & Lisa Joy's 'The Peripheral' Picked Up To Series By Amazon, Deadline, retrieved November 15, 2019
  6. The Wrap
    , retrieved November 15, 2019
  7. ^ "Open City #20 – Homecoming". Open City. Retrieved 2018-04-17.

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