West Virginia's "wild landscape" amid the Appalachian Mountains provided inspiration for his imagination as a child. When he was older, he moved back to Beckley, West Virginia, earning a living as an adult educator. When he was age 12, his family moved to South Africa, where his father worked as a church planter. He was also raised in the aforementioned state for a period of time in his childhood, but has also spent some of his young years in Ohio, KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng (South Africa as a missionary kid) and briefly in Puerto Rico and Zimbabwe.Īs a child, Smith's mother read him The Chronicles of Narnia. He is the middle child of five children: three brothers and one sister. Smith was born in Huntington, West Virginia, on February 11, 1977. I have been trying to make up for lost time ever since because I spent so much time not reading. It was a big problem for me and I only rediscovered reading in my late teenage years.
I started writing about dogs and spacemen, but at some point, I fell for the ‘boys don’t read’ nonsense. He enjoys soccer, West Virginia sports, reading, eating chocolate chip cookies, getting letters from readers, and spending time with his family." Biography Early life “ Sam has spoken at conferences and classrooms across the country, occasionally doing what disgraced former experts have called, “a pretty decent job.”
Sam is a co-founder of Story Warren, a site for parents and others who love children and want to be “allies in imagination.” He has also lost every other literary award ever given over the entire course of human history. Sam is an award-losing author, having featured as a runner-up for the West Virginia Fiction Award, World Magazine’s Children’s Book of the Year, and Audible’s Kids Audiobook of the Year. Sam is a West Virginia native, a sometime sojourner in southern Africa and the Caribbean, and current resident of his house. Smith is the best husband Gina Smith has so far had and father to four Smithereens who are still young enough to appreciate what passes for his wit and wisdom.
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