Sarah Smith (born December 9, 1947) is anAmerican author living inBrookline,Massachusetts.^[1]

She holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in English literature, both fromHarvard.^[1] She was an assistant professor of English for several years before going to work in the computer industry. She has worked forLisp Machines Inc., Bachman Inc., ITP Systems, Inc., and Effective Educational Tech which was acquired byPearson Education in 2006.^[2]

She is the author of a four-novelhistorical mystery series set in turn of the century Boston and Paris about amnesiacAlexander von Reisden.^[3] She has also authoredKing of Space,^[4] a work of speculative fiction published as a hypertext novel byEastgate Systems, Inc.^[5] in 1991, that places her among the pioneers ofelectronic literature.^[6] She has been a frequent speaker atReadercon in Boston.^[7][6]

• Fulbright fellow 1968-69
• Mellon fellow, 1977
• Woman of Year,The College Club of Boston, 1997
• Agatha Award,The Other Side of Dark, 2010^[8]
• Massachusetts Book Award,The Other Side of Dark, 2011^[9]

• The Vanished Child (Reprint (1993) ed.).Ballantine Books. 1992.ISBN 978-0-345-38164-4.^[10][11]
• The Knowledge of Water. Ballantine Books. 1996.ISBN 978-0-345-39135-3.^[10][11]
• A Citizen of the Country (Reprint (2002) ed.). Ballantine Books. 2000.ISBN 978-0-345-43303-9.^[12]
• Chasing Shakespeares Atria Books, 2003,ISBN 978-0-7434-6482-6
• The Other Side of Dark Atheneum, 2010,ISBN 978-1-4424-0280-5
• Crimes and Survivors Max Light Books, 2020,ISBN 1951636112

• Smith, Sarah withEastgate Systems (1991).TheKing of Space. This work was revived and discussed in Rebooting Electronic Literature.^[13]

• The Boys Go Fishing (Aug 2010) inDeath's Excellent Vacation^[14]

• Official website
• Interstitial Art FoundationArchived 2006-12-05 at theWayback Machine
• Sarah Smith at theInternet Speculative Fiction Database
• LibraryThing author profile

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• Writers of historical mysteries
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• American women historical novelists
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