Biography
Sherwood Smith was born in 1951. On her website, Smith describes herself as a middle-aged woman who has been married for thirty years. Besides writing, she taught part-time at a K-8 school. She has "two kids, three dogs, and a house full of books."
Smith began making books out of taped paper towels when she was five years old. When she was 8, she started writing about another world, Sartorias-deles, though she soon switched to making comic books of her stories, which she found to be easier. Although she first tried to send out her novels when she was 13, nothing sold. However, some of the novels Smith first wrote as a teen, including Wren to the Rescue were sold after she learned to rewrite.
In the years it took her to learn to rewrite, Smith "went to college, lived in Europe, came back to get masters in History, worked in Hollywood, got married, started a family and became a teacher." In 2010 she became a member of Book View Cafe.
Smith currently resides in California.
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