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Alexander Gordon Smith

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Occupation
  
Notable works
  
The Inventors

Nationality
  
British

Name
  
Alexander Smith


Period
  
2007-present

Role
  
Author

Genre
  
Young Adult & Children

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Born
  
February 27, 1979 (age 45) Norwich, England (
1979-02-27
)

Books
  
Solitary, The Fury, Execution, Lockdown, Death Sentence

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Alexander Gordon Smith (27 February 1979, Norwich, England) is an author of children and Young Adult fiction.

Contents

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Early life

During his teenage years, Smith went through what he calls a "rough patch". He said he would hang out with people that had a negative influence on him. He had once lost a tooth in a brawl. After he stopped being around his "friends", and these experiences, along with wondering what would have happened if he kept being around this group of people, are what partly inspired the Furnace series.

Profile

Between 2000 and 2003 he studied English literature at the University of East Anglia, where he set up a small poetry press called Egg Box Publishing. Egg Box published a number of new poets, including Richard Evans, Ramona Herdman and poetry collective Aisle16, and continues to add to its list of books.

In October 2004, Smith published a creative writing guide, "Inspired Creative Writing", for Infinite Ideas Ltd. A follow-up guide, "Writing Bestselling Children's Books" was published in July 2007.

Novels for children

In Summer 2005, Smith and his nine-year-old brother Jamie Webb began writing The Inventors, a children's novel. The book was shortlisted for the Wow Factor, a national competition run by Waterstones and Faber and Faber publishers, and although it lost out to Sarah Wray's The Forbidden Room it was taken on by Faber and published in April 2007. The sequel, The Inventors and the City of Stolen Souls was published in June 2008.

References

Alexander Gordon Smith Wikipedia


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