Clinton "Clint" Smith III (born August 25, 1988) is an American writer, poet and scholar. He is the author of the number one New York Times Best Seller, How the Word Is Passed, which won the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2021 by the New York Times. He is also the author of two poetry collections, Counting Descent, which was published in 2016 and Above Ground, which was published in March 2023.
Smith taught high school English in Prince George's County, Maryland where he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council.[6] He then pursued doctoral work at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society, earning his PhD in 2020 with his dissertation focusing how children sentenced to life without parole experience educational programming while they are incarcerated.[7]
He currently serves as a staff writer at The Atlantic, where his piece, "Monuments to the Unthinkable" was featured as the cover story in December 2022.[21] The article was also named a finalist for the 2023 National Magazine Awards.[22] He hosted Crash Course's Black American History series, which ran from 2021 until late in 2022.[23][24]
A fan of the Arsenal F.C. football (soccer) club and a former college soccer player, Smith has written several essays on the sport.[25][26]
2013 Christine D. Sarabanes Teacher of the Year[41]
Personal lifeedit
Smith resides in Maryland with his wife and two children.[5]
Referencesedit
^Smith, Clint (March 1, 2016). "Donald Trump, David Duke, and the Soccer Fields of Louisiana". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
^"Clint Smith Reflects On This Moment". NPR.org. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
^"The New Yorker: Clint Smith '10 on Trump, Duke and Disavowal". www.davidson.edu. Davidson College. March 2, 2016. Archived from the original on December 20, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
^Clint, Smith (May 13, 2020). ""What if They Open That Door One Day?" What Education Means to People Sentenced to Juvenile Life Without Parole". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
^ ab"About Clint Smith". clintsmithiii.com. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
^Alford, Natasha S. (October 3, 2016). "#GrioAuthorsCircle: Clint Smith reads excerpt from new book 'Counting Descent'". The Grio. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
^Dingfelder, Sadie (August 15, 2014). "D.C.'s Beltway Poetry Slam triumphs at the National Poetry Slam". Washington Post. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
^"Shestack Prizes Awarded to Clint Smith & Marie Howe". August 31, 2017.
^"Through Poetry And TED Talks, Clint Smith Probes Racism In America". WBUR. November 28, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
^"BCALA Announces the 2017 Literary Awards Winners". January 21, 2017. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
^ ab"NAACP Image Award Nominations Announced". NAACP. December 13, 2016. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved June 12, 2018.
^Wile, Rob (May 18, 2016). "This Historian Explains How America Became Resegregated, in 11 Tweets". Fusion. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
^The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race. www.simonandschuster.com. 2016. ISBN 9781501126345. Retrieved March 29, 2018.
^Smith, Clint (October 9, 2020). How the Word Is Passed. Little, Brown. ISBN 9780316492911 – via www.littlebrown.com.
^"The 10 Best Books of 2021". The New York Times. November 30, 2021. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
^"Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Clint Smith have won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize". September 28, 2022.
^"Prize-winning author Clint Smith working on book that will 'expand monolithic narrative' of WWII". AP NEWS. May 16, 2023. Retrieved May 19, 2023.
^"Clint Smith Joining The Atlantic as a Staff Writer". The Atlantic. July 27, 2020.
^"The Atlantic Wins Top Honor of General Excellence for Second Straight Year at 2023 National Magazine Awards". The Atlantic. March 29, 2023. Retrieved June 29, 2023.
^"Crash Course Black American History" – via www.youtube.com.
^"How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America". Hillman Foundation. April 11, 2022. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^Schaub, Michael (March 18, 2022). "Announcing the Winners of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Awards". National Book Critics Circle. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"The 10 Best Books of 2021". The New York Times. November 30, 2021. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021". Time. December 8, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"Clint Smith - The Root 100 - 2021". The Root. Retrieved January 30, 2023.
^"The 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century". GQ. December 9, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"Mellon Foundation Appoints Farah Jasmine Griffin and Clint Smith as 2021 Fellows in Residence". Mellon Foundation. July 26, 2021. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"Clint Smith - Emerson Collective". www.emersoncollective.com. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"30 Under 30 2018: Media". Forbes. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"Clint Smith". Art for Justice. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"D.C.'s Beltway Poetry Slam triumphs at the National Poetry Slam". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
^"PGCPS Educator Named Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year". offices.pgcps.org. Retrieved January 27, 2023.
External linksedit
Wikiquote has quotations related to Clint Smith (writer).
Official website
Lessons for How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith. Lessons and discussion questions by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca, Cierra Kaler-Jones, Bill Bigelow, Jesse Hagopian, and Ana Rosado.