Charlie Smith (born June 27, 1947) is a poet and novelist.
He has written seven novels and seven books of poetry. He has won the
Aga Khan Prize, the Levinson prize, the J. Howard and Barbara M.J. Wood prize, a
Guggenheim Fellowship
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, and a grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts
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.
His writing has appeared in magazines and journals such as ''The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Harper's,'' ''The New Republic,'' the ''New York Times'', and ''The Nation''. He lives in New York City and Key West.
Books of poetry include:
* ''Demo''
* ''Jump Soul''
* ''Word Comix''
* ''Women of America''
* ''Heroin and Other Poems''
* ''Before and After''
* ''The Palms''
* ''Indistinguishable from the Darkness''
* ''Red Roads''
Novels include:
* ''Men in Miami Hotels''
* ''Three Delays''
* ''Cheap Ticket to Heaven''
* ''Chimney Rock''
* ''The Lives of the Dead''
* ''Shine Hawk''
* ''Canaan''
He has also written a book of three novellas entitled ''Crystal River.''
References
Living people
1947 births
American male poets
American male novelists
Place of birth missing (living people)
Writers from New York City
Poets from New York (state)
20th-century American poets
20th-century American novelists
20th-century American male writers
Novelists from New York (state)
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