Alexander Gordon Smith Explained

Alexander Gordon Smith
Birth Date:February 27, 1979
Birth Place:Norwich, England
Occupation:Novelist
Genre:Young Adult and Children's fiction
Nationality:British
Period:2007–present
Notableworks:Furnace

Alexander Gordon Smith (27 February 1979, Norwich, England) is an author of children and Young Adult fiction.[1]

Early life

During his teenage years, Smith went through what he calls a "rough patch". He said he would hang out with people that had a negative influence on him. He had once lost a tooth in a brawl. After he stopped being around his "friends", and these experiences, along with wondering what would have happened if he kept being around this group of people, are what partly inspired the Furnace series.

Profile

Between 2000 and 2003 he studied English literature at the University of East Anglia, where he set up a small poetry press called Egg Box Publishing.[2] Egg Box published a number of new poets, including Richard Evans, Ramona Herdman and poetry collective Aisle16, and continues to add to its list of books.[3]

In October 2004, Smith published a creative writing guide, "Inspired Creative Writing", for Infinite Ideas Ltd. A follow-up guide, "Writing Bestselling Children's Books" was published in July 2007.[4]

Novels for children

In Summer 2005, Smith and his nine-year-old brother Jamie Webb began writing The Inventors, a children's novel. The book was shortlisted for the Wow Factor, a national competition run by Waterstones and Faber and Faber publishers, and although it lost out to Sarah Wray's The Forbidden Room it was taken on by Faber and published in April 2007.[5] [6] The sequel, The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls was published in June 2008.[7]

Bibliography

Fiction

The Inventors

The Furnace (Escape From Furnace)

See main article: Escape from Furnace.

The Fury

The Devil's Engine

Nonfiction

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Summary Bibliography: Alexander Gordon Smith. www.isfdb.org. 2020-01-22.
  2. Web site: Egg Box Publishing About. egg-box-publishing. en. 2020-01-22.
  3. Web site: Who's Who at Egg Box Publishing . 2008-09-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070807041424/http://www.eggboxpublishing.com/about.html . 2007-08-07 . dead.
  4. Web site: Archived item . 2007-05-02 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070430050912/http://www.infideas.com/our_books.asp?Category=ArtLiteratureMusic . 2007-04-30 .
  5. Web site: Brothers' tale of invention hits book shelves.
  6. News: Meet the team behind a new thriller for children. The Independent. London. 2007-05-27. 2010-04-23.
  7. Web site: 9780571238439: The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls - AbeBooks - Smith, Alexander Gordon: 0571238432. www.abebooks.co.uk. en-GB. 2020-01-22.
  8. Web site: The Fury (Fury, book 1) by Alexander Gordon Smith. www.fantasticfiction.com. 2020-01-22.
  9. Web site: The Storm (Fury, book 2) by Alexander Gordon Smith. www.fantasticfiction.com. 2020-01-22.
  10. Book: Smith, Alexander Gordon. The Devil's Engine: Hellraisers. December 2015. Macmillan. 978-0-374-30169-9. en.
  11. Web site: Hellfighters (The Devil's Engine, #2). www.goodreads.com. 2020-01-22.
  12. Web site: Hellwalkers (Devil's Engine, book 3) by Alexander Gordon Smith. www.fantasticfiction.com. 2020-01-22.
  13. Book: Smith, Alexander Gordon. Inspired Creative Writing: Secrets of the Master Wordsmiths. 2005. Infinite Ideas. 978-1-904902-07-2. en.
  14. Web site: Writing Bestselling Children's Books by Alexander Gordon Smith. www.fantasticfiction.com. 2020-01-22.

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