Andrew A. Smith

Andrew Smith was born in California, on July 16, 1959.{{cite web |url=http://authorandrewsmith.com/Author_Andrew_Smith/Home.html |title=Author Andrew Smith |last1=Smith |first1=Andrew |date=2014 |website=Author Andrew Smith |publisher=Macmillan Publishers |accessdate=20 October 2014}} He decided to pursue a career as a writer because he was the editor of his high school newspaper.{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-Smith/e/B001JS8PRM |title= Andrew Smith |website=amazon.com |publisher=Amazon |accessdate= 16 October 2014}} He traveled around the world and worked in various jobs such as working in metal mills, as a longshoreman, in bars and liquor stores, in security, and as a musician.{{cite web |url=http://us.macmillan.com/author/andrewsmith-1 |title=Andrew Smith |website=US.Macmillan.Com |publisher=Macmillan Publishers|accessdate= 16 October 2014}} After graduating from college, he tried pursuing careers as a journalist, writing for newspapers, and writing radio stations, but he felt it wasn't the kind of writing that he wanted to do for the rest of his life. After much traveling around the world, Smith finally settled for a job as a high school teacher. He taught advanced placement classes and coached a rugby team. The writing that he was doing on the side was never for publication; he would write for fun until he was challenged by one of his lifelong friends to get one of his books published. In 2008, his first novel, Ghost Medicine, was published, followed by several more novels including Grasshopper Jungle and The Alex Crow.{{Cite news|title = 'The Alex Crow,' by Andrew Smith|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/books/review/the-alex-crow-by-andrew-smith.html|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 2015-04-10|access-date = 2016-02-23|issn = 0362-4331|first = Jason|last = Reynolds}}

He is currently{{when|date=July 2023}} married, has two children, and teaches government, US history, and economics at Canyon High School in Santa Clarita, California.{{cite web|url=http://go.galegroup.com/ |title=Smith, Andrew 1959- (Andrew Anselmo Smith) |last=Fuller |first=Amy |date=2010 |website=Gale Virtual Reference Library |accessdate=2014-10-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521185035/http://go.galegroup.com/ |archivedate=May 21, 2011 }}{{cite web |url=http://foothilldragonpress.org/author-andrew-smith-shares-writing-experiences-with-foothill-students/ |title=Author Andrew Smith shares writing experience with Foothill students |last=Kearney |first=Megan |date=2012-06-07 |website=The Foothill Dragon Press |accessdate=2014-10-06}} Smith's novel Grasshopper Jungle was never meant to be published, as he had decided to quit writing for others, but his son urged him to publish it.{{cite podcast |host=Amazon Books|title="Andrew Smith on "Grasshopper Jungle"" |website=Youtube |publisher=Youtube |date=2014-02-12 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRu63kxyWtM |accessdate=2014-10-06}}{{cite web|url=http://thebookstop.net/2014/04/06/interview-with-andrew-smith/ |title=Interview with Andrew Smith |date=2014-04-06 |website=The Book Stop |accessdate=2014-10-06 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020052328/http://thebookstop.net/2014/04/06/interview-with-andrew-smith/ |archivedate=2014-10-20 }}

Andrew Smith has received several awards for his many books. His novel Marbury Lens has received a Young Adult Library Services Association Best For Young Adults award,{{cite web|title=AndrewSmith|url=http://www.authorandrewsmith.com/Author_Andrew_Smith/Home.html|website=authorandrewsmith.com|accessdate=2014-10-12}} the Booklist Editor's Choice 2010 award, and was named Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year for 2010.{{cite web|title=Marbury Lens|url=http://us.macmillan.com/themarburylens/andrewsmith-1|website=macmillan.com|publisher=Macmillan|accessdate=2014-10-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160205003430/http://us.macmillan.com/themarburylens/andrewsmith-1|archive-date=2016-02-05|url-status=dead}} His novel Winger was given an Amazon Best of the Year award and received an American Library Association Top 10 for 2014.{{cite web|title=Winger|url=https://www.bookbrowse.com/bb_briefs/detail/index.cfm/ezine_preview_number/8381/winger|website=bookbrowse.com|publisher=BookBrowse|accessdate=2014-10-12}} Winger was also rated as one of Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013 and Publishers Weekly Top 10 Summer Reads of 2013, was given a Junior Library Guild Selection for 2013, and was a 2014 Rainbow List Nominee.{{cite web|title=Andrew Smith|url=http://ghostmedicine.blogspot.com/|website=ghostmedicine.com|accessdate=2014-10-12}} His novel In the Path of Falling Objects received the Best Book For Young Adults Award. His novel Grasshopper Jungle has been awarded the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award{{cite web|title=Fiction Reviews of 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award Winner and Honor Books|url=http://www.hbook.com/2014/05/news/boston-globe-horn-book-awards/2014-boston-globe-horn-book-awards-excellence-childrens-literature/|website=hbook.com|publisher=Wordpress|accessdate=2014-10-12}} and was a 2015 Michael Printz Honor Book.{{Cite web|title = 2015 Michael Printz winners {{!}} Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA)|url = http://www.ala.org/yalsa/2015-michael-printz-winners|website = www.ala.org|date = 24 November 2015|access-date = 2016-02-23}}

• 2014 California Book Awards Young Adult Finalist for 100 Sideways Miles{{cite web|url=http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/special-events/california-book-awards|title=84th Annual California Book Awards Winners}}

• The Marbury Lens (2010) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1022 libraries.
• King of Marbury (2012, book 1.5)
• Passenger (2012) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 666 libraries.

• Winger (2013){{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2013/06/19/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/summer-books-2013-20-picks/|title=What to read this summer: Top 20 picks|publisher=CNN|date=2013-06-19|access-date=2014-12-18}} According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1268 libraries[http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n2008024308 WorldCat author listing]
• Stand-Off (2015)

• The Size of the Truth (2019)
• Bye-Bye, Blue Creek (2020)

• Grasshopper Jungle (2014) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1110 libraries. A Printz Award Honor Book, 2015
• Exile from Eden (2019){{Cite book|url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Exile-from-Eden/Andrew-Smith/9781534422230|isbn=9781534422230|title=Exile from Eden|date=24 September 2019|last1=Smith|first1=Andrew}}

• Ghost Medicine (2008) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 874 libraries.
• In the Path of Falling Objects (2009) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 653 libraries.
• Stick (2011) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 688 libraries.
• 100 Sideways Miles (2014)
• The Alex Crow (2015) Reviewed in the New York Times
• "Julian Breaks Every Rule" in Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy (2017)
• Rabbit & Robot (2018) Starred review from Publishers Weekly{{Cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-5344-2220-9|title=Rabbit & Robot|website=www.publishersweekly.com|access-date=2019-02-08}}

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• [https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/smith_andrew_2 Andrew Smith] at The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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