Ali Smith
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born
January 01, 1962
gender
female
place of birth
The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Ali Smith is a writer, born in 1962 in Inverness, Scotland, to working-class parents. She was raised in a council house in Inverness and now lives in Cambridge. She studied at Aberdeen, and then at Cambridge, for a Ph.D. that was never finished. In a 2004 interview with writing magazine Mslexia, she talked briefly about the difficulty of becoming ill with chronic fatigue syndrome for a year and how it forced her to give up her job as a lecturer at University of Strathclyde to focus on what she really wanted to do: writing. Openly gay, she has been with her partner Sarah Wood for 17 years and dedicates all her books to her.
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The Accidental by Ali Smith avg rating 3.15 — 1,017 ratings — published 2005 12 editions |
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Hotel World by Ali Smith avg rating 3.47 — 494 ratings — published 2001 8 editions |
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Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis (Canongate Myths) by Ali Smith avg rating 3.62 — 222 ratings — published 2007 8 editions |
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The Whole Story and Other Stories by Ali Smith avg rating 3.84 — 128 ratings — published 2003 3 editions |
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Like by Ali Smith avg rating 3.90 — 48 ratings — published 1997 3 editions |
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Other Stories and Other Stories by Ali Smith avg rating 4.23 — 43 ratings — published 1999 3 editions |
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The First Person: and Other Stories by Ali Smith avg rating 3.42 — 50 ratings — published 2008 6 editions |
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Free Love and Other Stories by Ali Smith avg rating 4.16 — 37 ratings — published 1995 2 editions |
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The Reader aka The Book Lover by Ali Smith avg rating 3.67 — 9 ratings — published 2006 2 editions |
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Laws of the Bandit Queens: Words to Live by from 35 of Today's Most Revolutionary Women by Ali Smith avg rating 3.56 — 9 ratings — published 2002 |
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"And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to."
— Ali Smith (Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis)
— Ali Smith (Girl Meets Boy: The Myth of Iphis)
"There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look."
— Ali Smith (Hotel World)
— Ali Smith (Hotel World)
