Name Mark Smith | ||
 | ||
Mark smith on the road to winter
Mark Smith is the author of several fantasy gamebooks.
Contents
Background
Smith is of Czech-Hungarian/English descent, his mother was brought as a child from Hungary settling in the UK just before the Second World War. Born in Birmingham Smith was educated in Brighton and went on to gain an MA in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University and spent some time racing in Formula Renault.
Career
Mark Smith is an author of gamebooks, including co-authoring two Fighting Fantasy titles (Talisman of Death and Sword of the Samurai), and the series Duel Master, Falcon and Way of the Tiger (1985-1987), all of which he co-authored with Jamie Thomson, whom he met whilst at school in Brighton. He also wrote two of the Virtual Reality series. He cites his gaming career as having begun with Original Dungeons & Dragons in 1976.
Today, Smith remains in southeast England and working in the field of software testing and quality assurance for NMQA - Software Testing.