Sarah Smith (writer) explained

Sarah Winthrop Rishworth Smith
Birth Date:	9 December 1947
Birth Place:	Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation:	Novelist
Education:	Harvard University (BA, PhD)
Genre:	Mystery, science fiction, hypertext fiction
Nationality:	American
Movement:	Historical whodunnit, Interstitial arts
Awards:	Agatha Awards

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. 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]

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

• Book: The Vanished Child. 1992. Reprint (1993). Ballantine Books. 978-0-345-38164-4. ^{[10] [11]}
• Book: The Knowledge of Water. Ballantine Books. 1996. 978-0-345-39135-3. ^{[10] [11]}
• Book: A Citizen of the Country. registration. 2000. Reprint (2002). Ballantine Books. 978-0-345-43303-9. ^[12]
• Chasing Shakespeares Atria Books, 2003,
• The Other Side of Dark Atheneum, 2010,
• Crimes and Survivors Max Light Books, 2020,

Hypertext novel

• Book: Smith, Sarah with Eastgate Systems. The King of Space. 1991. This work was revived and discussed in Rebooting Electronic Literature.^[13]

Anthologies

• The Boys Go Fishing (Aug 2010) in Death's Excellent Vacation^[14]

References

1. Web site: Sarah Smith . 2024-08-15 . Simon & Schuster . en.
2. Web site: Virtual Event: Sarah Smith’s Titanic Party [04/19/20] ]. 2024-08-15 . www.thebostoncalendar.com.
3. https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/08/books/crime-180378.html?fta=y "Crime," By Marilyn Stasio, review of The Knowledge of Water in The New York Times, September 8, 1996
4. Web site: King of Space.
5. Web site: Home . eastgate.com.
6. Web site: Dirda . Michael . 2023-07-20 . At Readercon, print is still king . subscription . 2024-08-15 . Washington Post.
7. Web site: Search for Sarah Readercon Web Services . 2024-08-15 . readercon.org.
8. Web site: AGATHA AWARDS BEST CHILDREN/YOUNG ADULT Cozy Mystery List . 2024-08-15 . cozy-mystery.com.
9. Web site: Previous Winners . 2024-08-15 . Massachusetts Center for the Book . en-US.
10. Book: Durham, Carolyn A. . Literary globalism: Anglo-American fiction set in France . 134 . . 2005 . 978-0-8387-5608-9 .
11. Book: To be continued: an annotated guide to sequels . 267 . Merle . Jacob . Hope . Apple . 2nd . . 2000 . 978-1-57356-155-6 .
12. Book: Durham, Carolyn A. . Literary globalism: Anglo-American fiction set in France . 135 . Bucknell University Press . 2005 . 978-0-8387-5608-9 .
13. Web site: Rebooting Electronic Literature: Sarah Smith's "King of Space" . 2024-08-15 . Rebooting Electronic Literature: Documenting Pre-Web Born Digital Media . en.
14. Book: Death's Excellent Adventure. Aug 2010. Harris. Charlaine. Kelner. Toni L. P..

External links

• • Interstitial Art Foundation
  • LibraryThing author profile