Scott Smith (author)
Scott Bechtel Smith (born July 13, 1965) is an American author and screenwriter, who has published two novels, A Simple Plan and The Ruins. His screen adaptation of A Simple Plan earned him an Academy Award nomination. The screenplay won a Broadcast Film Critics Association Award and a National Board of Review Award.
Smith was born in Summit, New Jersey in 1965 and moved to Toledo, Ohio as a child.[1] After graduating from Dartmouth College and from Columbia University with a Master of Fine Arts degree in Writing, he took up writing full-time.
His second novel, The Ruins, was also adapted into a film, released on April 4, 2008. Stephen King called it "[t]he best horror novel of the new century." King had also called A Simple Plan "simply the best suspense novel of the year."
In 2016 it was announced that TNT had greenlit a pilot for "Civil", a new TV series created by Smith about a second American Civil War following a hotly contested presidential election.[2]
Early life
Smith is the son of Linda and Doug Smith. He told The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reviewer Regis Behe that, as a child, he read his father's "castoffs," the novels of Clive Cussler and Jack Higgins. "Growing up, I also read Ray Bradbury and Stephen King," he said. "I just had a sense of how to create these places that aren't real world places, but just with this provisional attachment to the real world. It is very much of your imagination, and I felt very much I could do that."[3]
Bibliography
- A Simple Plan (1993), ISBN 0-312-95271-6
- The Ruins (2006), ISBN 1-4000-4387-5
Translations
- Italy by Mario Biondi, "Un piano semplice", Rizzoli, 1993
- Slovak (by Katarína Jusková): Ruiny. - Bratislava : Ikar 2006. ISBN 978-80-551-1369-2
- Sweden by Olov Hyllienmark "Ruinerna"
- Denmark by Henrik Enemark Sørensen
- Poland by Jan Kraśko - "Prosty Plan"
References
- ↑ Prince, Tom. "Brief Lives: Making a Killing," New York, August 30, 1993, p. 48. Accessed February 20, 2011.
- ↑ The Hollywood Reporter "TNT Picks Up Young Shakespeare Series, Orders Modern Civil War Drama Pilot"
- ↑ Behe, Regis (July 23, 2006). "Author Infuses The Ruins with Social Commentary". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Pittsburgh: Tribune-Review Publishing Company.
External links
- Scott B. Smith at the Internet Movie Database
- Online interview from CBC Words at Large
- New York Times Review