During his childhood in Ohio, writing was not something that people believed was a serious career path. He always loved writing growing up but never thought he could make a living as a writer. In conversations, Scott Smith comes across as a modest Midwestern man who surprisingly lives in New York City, one of the most thriving metropolises in the world. As the creator of the TV series, Scott Smith acted as executive showrunner and producer while the pilot of the series will be directed by Vincenzo Natali. Smith also wrote the TV adaptation of “The Peripheral” originally penned by William Gibson. In 2016, TNT announced that Civil a new TV series about the second American Civil War created by Scott Smith had received the green light. It got high praise as Stephen King called it the best horror novel since the turn of the century. “The Ruins” which was his second novel was also adapted into a film in 2008.

The screen adaptation of his debut novel was nominated for an Academy Award while the screenplay won the National Board of Review Award and the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award. Even at that very young age, he had strong creativity and could create places that were not found in the real world.Īfter he graduated from Columbia University and Dartmouth College with an MFA in writing, he decided to become a full-time author. Some other works that he read while he was growing up included Stephen King and Ray Bradbury. Smith was born to Doug and Linda Smith and told a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review journalist that he used to read his father’s castoffs and the novels of Jack Higgins and Clive Cussler as a child. The author was born in 1965 in Summit, New Jersey but the family moved to Toledo in Ohio when Smith was still a child.

Scott Smith is an entertainment, mystery and thriller, and horror fiction author that is best known for his debut novel “A Simple Plan” which was published in 1993.

The River Dead by Scott L. Smith