C. W.  S m i t h 

A Brief Bio & Bibliography:

C.W. Smith is the 2006 Dedman Family Distinguished Professor and teaches in the creative writing program at Southern Methodist University. He is the author of the novels -- Thin Men of Haddam (Grossman/Viking, 1973), Country Music (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975), The Vestal Virgin Room (Atheneum, 1983), Buffalo Nickel (Poseidon/Simon & Schuster, 1989), Hunter's Trap (Texas Christian University Press, 1996), Understanding Women (TCU Press, 1998), and Gabriel's Eye (Winedale Publishing, 2001). He has also published a collection of short stories, Letters From the Horse Latitudes (TCU Press, 1994). His short stories have appeared in Mademoiselle, Vision, Southwest Review, Sunstone Review, Carolina Quarterly, New Mexico Humanities Review, Quartet, Cimarron Review, American Literary Review, American Short Fiction, The Missouri Review and other magazines. A new novel, Purple Hearts, was published in Spring 2008 by TCU Press.

He has also been a reporter and film critic for The Dallas Times Herald and a free-lance journalist whose articles have appeared in Esquire, TV Guide, Texas Monthly, Eastern Review, Atlanta, D, The Texas Humanist, and The Utne Reader, as well as other periodicals and newspapers. His autobiographical book dealing with children after a divorce was published in by Putnam in 1987. A paperback reprint under the author's original title -- Uncle Dad -- was published by Berkley in 1989.

He has twice received the Jesse H. Jones Novel Award from the Texas Institute of Letters; the Southwestern Library Association Award for Best Novel; the Dobie-Paisano Creative Writing Fellowship from the University of Texas; National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships in 1976 and 1990; the Texas Headliner's Feature Story award; the Frank O'Connor Memorial Short Story Award from Quartet magazine; the John H. McGinnis Short Story Award from Southwest Review; a Pushcart Prize Nomination from Southwest Review; Special Merit Award for Feature Writing from the Penney-Missouri Foundation; the Stanley Walker Award for Journalism from the Texas Institute of Letters, an SMU Research-Travel Grant, and an award for Best Nonfiction Book by a Texan in 1987 from the Southwestern Booksellers Association, and an award for Outstanding Book of the Southwest from the Border Regional Library Association.

He belongs to PEN, The Authors Guild, Writer's Guild of America West, and the Texas Institute of Letters.

 

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