Sherri L. Smith is an American novelist with many awards. She is also a comic book illustrator. She worked on stop motion animation in films.
Early life
Smith was born in Chicago. She spent most of her life in Staten Island after her parents got divorced. She moved from coast to coast. In New York she attended NYU to get a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film. She also went to San Francisco State University to study Business Administration. She finally graduated from California State University with an M.A. in Creative Writing.
Career
Film
Smith worked on stop motion animation. She worked on Tim Burton’s ‘Mars Attacks!’ She had a three year contract with Disney.
Construction
Smith she moved to Los Angeles. She began to work in a construction company, constructing monsters, aliens, and dead people for movies.
Comics
In Los Angeles, Smith started to work more on her comics. She got a job at Bongo Comics. Then, she started to pursue her dream of writing a novel.
Writing
She is known for writing novels about teenage misfits. Her writing is intricate. Smith has written many novels, including Lucy the Giant, Flygirl, Orleans, The Blossom and the Firefly, Pasadena, Sparrow, and Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet.
Awards
Smith's novels have won a variety of awards. Flygirl was considered by the Washington Post as the best book of 2012. New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, YALSA Best Book for Young Adults, American Library Association, and many other organizations have given Smith awards for her books.
Books
Lucy the Giant
Sparrow
Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet
Flygirl
Orleans
The Toymaker’s Apprentice
Pasadena
Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? The Blossom and the Firefly