Sarah Smith (born December 9, 1947) is an

American author American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the British colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also ...

living in

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Massachusetts Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode ...

Life

She holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in English literature, both from

Harvard Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher lear ...

. 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 Pearson Education, known since 2011 as simply Pearson, is the educational publishing and services subsidiary of the international corporation Pearson plc. The subsidiary was formed in 1998, when Pearson plc acquired Simon & Schuster's educatio ...

in 2006. She is the author of a four-novel

historical mystery The historical mystery or historical whodunit is a subgenre of two literary genres, historical fiction and mystery fiction. These works are set in a time period considered historical from the author's perspective, and the central plot involves th ...

series set in turn of the century Boston and Paris about amnesiac

Alexander von Reisden Alexander von Reisden is a fictional character in a three book historical mystery series by Sarah Smith. The novels, set in turn of the 20th century Boston and pre-World War I Paris, are ''The Vanished Child'' (1992), ''The Knowledge of Water'' ( ...

. She has also authored ''

King of Space ''King of Space'' is a work of electronic literature by author Sarah Smith. This interactive narrative is set in a collapsing solar system aboard an abandoned starship, where an escaped terrorist encounters the last star-captain and his ship's ...

'', a work of speculative fiction published as a hypertext novel by

Eastgate Systems Eastgate Systems is a hypertext publisher and software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts. Eastgate is a pioneer in hypertext publishing and electronic literature and one of the best known publishers of hypertext fiction. It publ ...

, Inc. in 1991, that places her among the pioneers of

electronic literature Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature where digital capabilities such as interactivity, multimodality or Generative literature, algorithmic text generation are used aesthetically. Works of electronic literature ar ...

. She has been a frequent speaker at

Readercon Readercon is an annual science fiction convention, typically held every July in the Boston, Massachusetts area, currently taking place in Quincy, Massachusetts. It was founded by Bob Colby and Eric Van in 1987 with the goal of focusing almost exc ...

in Boston.

Awards

Fulbright fellow The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people o ...

1968-69 * Mellon fellow, 1977 * Woman of Year,

The College Club of Boston The College Club of Boston is a private membership organization founded in 1890 as the first women's college club in the United States. Located in the historic Back Bay of Boston, Massachusetts, at 44 Commonwealth Avenue, the College Club was e ...

, 1997 * Agatha Award, ''The Other Side of Dark'', 2010 *

Massachusetts Book Award Massachusetts ( ; ), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine to its east, Connecticut and Rhode Island to it ...

, ''The Other Side of Dark'', 2011

Works

* * * * ''Chasing Shakespeares'' Atria Books, 2003, * ''The Other Side of Dark'' Atheneum, 2010, *''Crimes and Survivors'' Max Light Books, 2020,

Hypertext novel

* This work was revived and discussed in Rebooting Electronic Literature.

Anthologies

* ''The Boys Go Fishing'' (Aug 2010) in Death's Excellent Vacation

References

External links

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Interstitial Art Foundation
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LibraryThing author profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Smith, Sarah 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 American historical novelists 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers American electronic literature writers