Sarah Smith

In international bestseller Sarah Smith's new novel, Crimes and Survivors, a young woman pianist struggles to survive Titanic and Jim Crow–era prejudice. William Martin says “Read it and be enthralled!” and it’s a 5-star book on a site beginning with A. Two of the earlier books in the series are New York Times Notable Books and one is a Waterstone’s Book of the Year. Her YA ghost thriller, The Other Side of Dark, set in Boston, won both the Agatha for best YA mystery of the year and the Massachusetts Book Award for best YA book of the year. Samuel Delany calls her Chasing Shakespeares “the best novel about the Bard since Nothing like the Sun.” Whenever she begins a new book, she’s convinced she knows nothing about writing. Until at least the third revision, she’s right. Smith lives in Brookline.