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| Sarah Smith studied film and literature
in London as a Fulbright scholar and in Paris on a Harvard
fellowship, and has also held an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship
in the Humanities. A graduate of Harvard University,
where she received her B.A. and Ph.D. in English literature,
she taught at Tufts for several years. |
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She has written four historical mysteries. The Vanished
Child, The Knowledge of Water, and A Citizen of the
Country are part of a series set in the Edwardian period.
The Vanished Child and The Knowledge of Water
have been named New York Times Notable Books of the
Year. They have been published in fourteen languages and
in the UK, and have reached bestseller status here and abroad.
Chasing Shakespeares, her newest book, is a stand-alone
literary mystery about the Shakespeare authorship controversy.
Two young graduate students together find a letter from
one W. Shakespeare of Stratford saying he didn't write the
plays. Joe Roper, a serious young scholar from Vermont,
is sure it's a forgery. But Posy Gould is from Harvard and
Hollywood, she's never met a high concept she didn't like,
she wants the letter to be real--and Posy usually gets what
she wants. The two go to England in search of Shakespeare,
and discover they will have to decide not only who Shakespeare
is, but who they are, and how far they are willing to go...
Iain Pears says Chasing Shakespeares is "a
remarkable achievement, blending history and fantasy, past
and present, ideas and emotions into a seamless whole that
is as entertaining as it is thought-provoking," and
Sir Derek Jacobi calls it "wonderfully entertaining,
thought-provoking, and highly readable...a stunning combination
of fascinating fact and exciting fiction." The Village
Voice made it one of their summer reads; it is an NEIBA
bestseller; the Detroit Free Press gave it four stars.
According to the New York Times, "Marjorie Garber,
meet Reese Witherspoon!"
Sarah has also written three hypertextual novels (novels
meant to be read on the computer or the Web) and has collaborated
on several books. Her poems and stories have appeared in
magazines and anthologies. She has taught writing at Hofstra
University Summer Writers' Program, the Brown University
Learning Community, Book Passage, Corte Madera (with Katherine
Neville), and Stonecoast Writers' Workshop (with Dennis
Lehane). This fall she is teaching at Grub Street Writers
Community in Boston.
She has been a judge of several literary awards. She is
a board member of the Shakespeare Fellowship, a board member
of the Interstitial Arts Foundation, and a member of the
Science Fiction Writers of America's Contracts Committee;
she has also served as president of the New England chapter
of Sisters in Crime. She was the founding webmaster of the
Mystery Writers of America.
She is profiled in Contemporary Authors, International
Authors and Writers Who's Who, Who's Who in the World,
and Who's Who in America. In 1997 the College Club
of Boston named her one of its Notable Women of the Year,
and in 2002 the Newton Library named her one of its Author
Honorees of the Year.
She lives near Boston, Massachusetts, with her family,
including two gray cats.
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