Sarah Smith (born 1947) is an American author living in

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, Massachusetts.

Life

She holds a B.A. and a Ph.D. in English literature, both from Harvard. She was an Assistant Professor of English for several years before going to work in the computer industry. She has worked for

Lisp Machines Inc. Lisp machines are general-purpose computers designed to efficiently run Lisp as their main software and programming language, usually via hardware support. They are an example of a high-level language computer architecture, and in a sense, the ...

, Bachman Inc., ITP Systems, Inc., and Effective Educational Tech which was acquired by Pearson Education in 2006. She is the author of a three-novel historical mystery series set in turn of the century Boston and Paris about amnesiac Alexander von Reisden. She has also authored ''King of Space'', a work of speculative fiction published as a hypertext novel by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in 1991, that places her among the pioneers of electronic literature.

Electronic literature Electronic literature or digital literature is a genre of literature encompassing works created exclusively on and for digital devices, such as computers, tablets, and mobile phones. A work of electronic literature can be defined as "a constr ...

Awards

* Fulbright fellow 1968-69 * Mellon fellow, 1977 * named Woman of Year,

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, 1997.

Works

* * * * ''Chasing Shakespeares'' Atria Books, 2003, * ''The Other Side of Dark'' Atheneum, 2010,

Hypertext novel

Anthologies

* ''The Boys Go Fishing'' (Aug 2010) in Death's Excellent Vacation

References

External links

Interstitial Art Foundation
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LibraryThing author profileAuthor's website
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