Name Sherri Smith | Role Writer | |
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Books Flygirl, The Toymaker's Apprentice, Orleans, Hot - Sour - Salty - Sweet, Lucy the giant | ||
Meet the author sherri l smith
Sherri L. Smith is an American writer. Her novel Flygirl was selected as one of the American Library Association's 2010 Best Books for Young Adults.
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- Meet the author sherri l smith
- The best writing advice author sherri l smith ever got authorcuts
- Life
- Books
- Flygirl
- Comic Books
- References
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Life
Smith was born in Chicago, Illinois and has also lived in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles. When she turned twelve, her parents divorced. After high school, she went to college to study film at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Sherri has worked in film, animation, comic books, and construction. She worked for three years at Disney TV Animation, helping to create stories for animated home video projects. After leaving Disney, Smith worked with a construction company on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport. After that, she spent nine years working at Bongo Comics.
Currently, she writes novels for young adults, including Flygirl, Sparrow, Orleans, and Lucy the Giant. She is on the faculty of Goddard College's MFA in Creative Writing Program and Hamline University's MFA in Children's Writing Program.
Books
Flygirl
Flygirl (2010) is about a young woman who joins the American Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program during World War II, which allowed women to fly planes in non-combat roles. The protagonist is Ida Mae Jones, a light-skinned African-American woman who passes for white in order join up and get the chance to fly. Kirkus called it "well-told", "interesting", and "vibrant".