Background and Early Career
Smith grew up in New Jersey, the son of Burlington attorney Louis Smith and his wife Carol, a clinical social worker.
He worked as a founding editor of the magazine P.O.V. and editor-in-chief of its sister publication, Egg, as well as an editor of Might magazine with Dave Eggers. He was also managing editor of the news service AlterNet. and editor of the city guide network, Boulevards.
Smith also worked as executive editor of Yahoo! Internet Life, senior editor at ESPN The Magazine, and articles editor at Men's Journal. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Popular Science, Men’s Health, Salon, Slate, and other places.
In 2004, Smith's wife, Piper Kerman, served a 15-month sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, CT, the result of a 1998 arrest for drug-related offense committed about five years prior. Smith visited her in prison most every weekend, and wrote about the experience in the New York Times. Kerman later wrote a book about the experience, Orange Is The New Black: My Year In A Women's Prison.
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