Sarah Smith (born December 9, 1947) is an American author living in Brookline, Massachusetts.
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 four-novel historical mystery series set in turn of the century Boston and Paris about amnesiac Alexander von Reisden."Crime," By Marilyn Stasio, review of The Knowledge of Water in The New York Times, September 8, 1996 She has also authored King of Space, a work of speculative fiction published as a hypertext novel by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in 1991, that places her among the pioneers of electronic literature. She has been a frequent speaker at Readercon in Boston.
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 Massachusetts Book Award, 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
Interstitial Art Foundation
LibraryThing author profile