Scott B. Smith
Smith in 2006
Born	(1965-07-13)July 13, 1965 (age 60) Summit, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Author screenwriter executive producer
Language	English
Education	Dartmouth College Columbia University (MFA)
Genres	Horror,thriller
Notable works	A Simple Plan (1993),The Ruins (2006)

Scott Bechtel Smith (born July 13, 1965) is an American author andscreenwriter. He has written two novels,A Simple Plan (1993) andThe Ruins (2006). Both were adapted into films –A Simple Plan (1998) andThe Ruins (2008), respectively – based on Smith's own screenplays. He also wrote the screenplays for the filmsSiberia (2018) andThe Burnt Orange Heresy (2019). His screenplay forA Simple Plan earned him a nomination for theAcademy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Smith was born inSummit, New Jersey in 1965 and moved toToledo, Ohio as a child.^[1] He is the son of Linda and Doug Smith. He told thePittsburgh Tribune-Review reviewer Regis Behe that, as a child, he read his father's "castoffs," the novels ofClive Cussler andJack Higgins. "Growing up, I also readRay Bradbury andStephen King," he said. "I just had a sense of how to create these places that aren't real world places, but just with this provisional attachment to the real world. It is very much of your imagination, and I felt very much I could do that."^[2] After graduating fromDartmouth College and fromColumbia University with aMaster of Fine Arts degree in writing, he took up writing full-time.

He has published two novels,A Simple Plan andThe Ruins. His screen adaptation ofA Simple Plan earned him anAcademy Award nomination. The screenplay won a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and a National Board of Review Award.

His second novel,The Ruins, was also adapted intoa film, released on April 4, 2008.Stephen King called it "the best horror novel of the new century." King had also calledA Simple Plan "simply the best suspense novel of the year."

In 2016, it was announced thatTNT had greenlit a pilot forCivil, a new TV series created by Smith about a second American Civil War following a hotly contested presidential election.^[3] ATV series adaptation ofWilliam Gibson'sThe Peripheral was commissioned in 2018 byAmazon,^[4] with Smith as writer.^[5] Smith created the series, and served as executive producer andshowrunner.Vincenzo Natali directed the show's pilot.^[6]

• A Simple Plan (1993),ISBN 0-312-95271-6
• The Ruins (2006),ISBN 1-4000-4387-5

• "The Egg Man,"Open City Magazine, Issue #20^[7] (2005)
• "Up in Old Vermont", originally published inSeize the Night: New Tales of Vampiric Terror (2015) byGallery Books, edited byChristopher Golden
• "Dogs", originally published inDark Cities (2017) byTitan Books, edited by Christopher Golden
• "Christmas in Barcelona", originally published inHark! The Herald Angels Scream (2018) byAnchor Books, edited by Christopher Golden
• "The New Boyfriend", originally published inTen-Word Tragedies (2019) byPS Publishing, edited by Christopher Golden & Tim Lebbon

• Italian by Mario Biondi, "Un piano semplice", Rizzoli, 1993
• Slovakian (by Katarína Jusková):Ruiny. - Bratislava: Ikar 2006.ISBN 978-80-551-1369-2
• Spanish by Jaume Subira Ciurana, "Las Ruinas", Ediciones B, Barcelona 2007.ISBN 978-84-666-3349-9
• Swedish by Olov Hyllienmark "Ruinerna"
• Danish by Henrik Enemark Sørensen
• Polish by Jan Kraśko - "Prosty Plan"
• Spanish by Rosa Corgatelli "Un plan simple"

Film

• A Simple Plan (1998)
• The Ruins (2008)
• Siberia (2018)
• The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019)

Television

• The Peripheral (2022)

• Scott Smith atIMDb
• Online interview from CBC Words at Large
• New York Times Review

• 1965 births
• 20th-century American novelists
• 21st-century American novelists
• American male novelists
• American male screenwriters
• Columbia University School of the Arts alumni
• Dartmouth College alumni
• Living people
• Writers from Summit, New Jersey
• 20th-century American male writers
• 21st-century American male writers
• Novelists from New Jersey
• Screenwriters from New Jersey

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