His novel Grasshopper Jungle has been awarded the 2014 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was a 2015 Michael Printz Honor Book. His novel In the Path of Falling Objects received the Best Book For Young Adults Award. Winger was also rated as one of Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2013 and Publishers Weekly Top 10 Summer Reads of 2013, was given a Junior Library Guild Selection for 2013, and was a 2014 Rainbow List Nominee. His novel Winger was given an Amazon Best of the Year award and received an American Library Association Top. His novel Marbury Lens has received a Young Adult Library Services Association Best For Young Adults award, the Booklist Editor's Choice 2010 award, and was named Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of the Year for 2010. Awards Īndrew Smith has received several awards for his many books. Smith's novel Grasshopper Jungle was never meant to be published, as he had decided to quit writing for others, but his son urged him to publish it. He is currently married, has two children, and teaches Government, US History, and Economics at Canyon High School in Santa Clarita, California. In 2008 his first novel, Ghost Medicine, was published, followed by several more novels including Grasshopper Jungle and The Alex Crow. The writing that he was doing on the side was never for publication he would write for fun until he was challenged by one of his lifelong friends to get one of his books published. He taught advanced placement classes and coached a rugby team. After much traveling around the world, Smith finally settled for a job as a high school teacher. After graduating from college, he tried pursuing careers as a journalist, writing for newspapers, and writing radio stations, but he felt it wasn't the kind of writing that he wanted to do for the rest of his life. He traveled around the world and worked in various jobs such as working in metal mills, as a longshoreman, in bars and liquor stores, in security, and as a musician. He decided to pursue a career as a writer because he was the editor of his high school newspaper.

Smith is known for his dark subject matter, and his randomized writing style.Īndrew Smith was born in California in 1959. He has written ten novels including Winger and Grasshopper Jungle, which is currently being adapted into a movie. Andrew Anselmo Smith (born July 16, 1959) is an American author and short story writer in the young adult fiction genre.

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