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Sarah Smith (born 1947) is an American author living in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Sarah Winthrop Rishworth Smith
Born	(1947-12-09) December 9, 1947 (age 74) Boston, Massachusetts
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Genre	Mystery, science fiction, hypertext fiction
Literary movement	Historical whodunnit, Interstitial arts
Notable awards	Agatha Awards
Website
www.sarahsmith.com

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 three-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.). Ballantine Books. 1992. ISBN 978-0-345-38164-4.[5][6]
• The Knowledge of Water. Ballantine Books. 1996. ISBN 978-0-345-39135-3.[5][6]
• 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

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

External links

• Interstitial Art Foundation
• Sarah Smith at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• LibraryThing author profile
• Author's website

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