Annick Smith (born 1936) is a French-born American writer and filmmaker whose work often focuses on the natural world.

Biography

The daughter of Jewish-Hungarian émigrés, Smith was born in

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(2 July 1995)
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''Deseret News'' ("Smith was born in France to Jewish parents who left Hungary for exile...") and raised in Chicago, Illinois. In 1964, she moved to

Montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...

, where she and her husband and sons eventually settled on a ranch in the Blackfoot River valley. Her husband died from heart failure in 1974, but Smith remained on the land to raise her sons. Her writings mostly revolve around the subjects of environmentalism, travel, and history of Montana. She was also a founding member of th
Sundance Film Institute
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Hellgate Writers
in Missoula, Montana. Among her books are ''Homestead'', ''Big Bluestem'', ''In This We Are Native'' and ''Crossing the Plains with Bruno''. She also co-edited an anthology of Montana writing, ''The Last Best Place''. Her travel writing and essays have appeared in journals such as ''Audubon'', ''Outside'', ''Islands'', ''Travel + Leisure'', and ''National Geographic Traveler''. In October 2018,

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published ''Hearth: A Global Conversation on Identity, Community, and Place'', a book Smith co-edited with Susan O'Connor. Smith had previously worked with O'Connor on ''The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie'', published by

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in 2008. Smith served as executive producer of the film '' Heartland''Ferretti, Fred (22 November 1981)
"Heartland" - A Triumph of True Grit
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'' and co-producer of '' A River Runs Through It'', directed by Robert Redford. She was also a founding board member of Redford’s

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. An often overlooked fact is that she is the producer of the documentary on the late poet Richard Hugo, ''Kicking the Loose Gravel Home: Richard Hugo''. Smith lived in Montana with her partner, the writer William Kittredge.

References

External links

Author papers at Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University
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