Author dan smith biography

Among other novels, Dan Smith is the author of The Child Thief, Red Winter and The Darkest Heart, which are also available from Pegasus Crime.
Dan Smith OBE (born 17 September 1951) is a British author, cartographer and peace researcher.
Growing up, Dan Smith lived three lives: the day-to-day humdrum of boarding school, finding adventure in the padi fields of Asia and the jungles of Brazil.

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Dan Smith Biography

Daniel Smith was born in London in 1976 and studied English and History at Cardiff University. He began a career in publishing shortly after graduating, which included a stint working in Kolkata, India. He has been a contributor to The Statesman’s Yearbook, a geo-political guide to the world published annually since 1854, for twenty years.

He wrote his first book, The Sherlock Holmes Companion: An Elementary Guide, in 2009 and has subsequently written over 30 non-fiction titles, for both adults and children. He is the author of the best-selling How to Think Like… biographical series for Michael O’Mara, which has been translated into some 20 languages.

In 2010 he wrote The Spade as Mighty as the Sword, a history of the Second World War Dig for Victory campaign (‘as much a preparation for the future as a hymn to the past’—John Carey). His most recent narrative non-fiction book is The Ardlamont Mystery: The Real-Life Story Behind the Creation of Sherlock Holmes ('Fascinating and expertly written'&mdash

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Dan Smith

Biography of Dan Smith

Dan Smith, an alumnus of Boston University, has been a teacher, coach, and for twenty-five years a high school assistant principal. He has also worked as a truck driver, hod carrier, carpenter and common laborer. He is fluent in several languages and enjoys reading, research, music, weightlifting, handball, and target shooting at a gun club near his home in Massachusetts.

Smith’s lifelong ambition is writing. He attributes his desire to write and any talent he brings to the craft to his parents, especially on his mother’s side: Smith’s maternal grandfather was George Reginald Margetson, a Poet Laureate, whose substantial works are included in the libraries of many of our most prestigious universities.

Dan Smith published his first novel, A Walk In The City, in 1971: a contemporary story of Black youth. Long interested in the American frontier, his current ambition is to write novels of the Old West, stories that include Black men and woman in a true historical perspective of the frontier life.

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Dan Smith (British author)

Author and peace researcher

Dan SmithOBE (born 17 September 1951) is a British author, cartographer and peace researcher. He is currently the Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Smith was Director of Peace Research Institute Oslo from 1993 to 2001, the Secretary General of the independent peacebuilding organisation International Alert and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Manchester.

Education and career

He studied English Literature in the University of Cambridge in 1973. After graduation, he worked for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament before taking up research on UK defence policies in 1976. He was a fellow first of the Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research (located at that time in London) and then of the Department of Economics at Birkbeck College in London.

During the 1980s Smith worked as a freelance researcher and writer. In 1989 he became co-director of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, becoming its sole director in 1991, and then movin